She’s having her own family issues, and being rudely greeted by the bumper of a car doesn’t exactly put her in the holiday spirit. May is also spending the holidays in DC with her dad, but not because she wants to be there. We meet May in a rather abrupt manner-and this is not really a spoiler as it’s in the book’s synopsis and in the first chapter-with the front of Shani’s mom’s Subaru. This is also where Arlow nails the post-teenage angst humor. There are a lot of complicated feelings around this stage of life, and Arlow’s character portrayals feel very authentic-the main characters are both first year college students figuring out what it means to be independent, to manage this in-between phase of life, caught between home and their new freedoms. These are a few of my favorite things about Jake Arlow’s How to Excavate a Heart.Ĭollege student Shani Levine is determined to spend the holidays alone doing a winter internship at the Smithsonian-that means she’ll be away from her family, her mom specifically, which she feels guilty about while also desperately feeling the need to get away. Non-stop cackling, except when you take a break to have a good cry.
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