I said I wouldn't post, and I'm posting. Well, that's because Nisi Shawl's review of Superpowers in The Seattle Times made my day:
Schwartz wisely declines to explain how and why they've gotten these gifts, focusing instead on the ways their newfound abilities affect the five students. . . . Set in the days just before Sept. 11, Superpowers makes sometimes funny, often surprising and always moving comparisons between the dream of invulnerability and the reality of what even the most powerful of people--and nations--can do.
OK, now I'm gone again.
Schwartz wisely declines to explain how and why they've gotten these gifts, focusing instead on the ways their newfound abilities affect the five students. . . . Set in the days just before Sept. 11, Superpowers makes sometimes funny, often surprising and always moving comparisons between the dream of invulnerability and the reality of what even the most powerful of people--and nations--can do.
OK, now I'm gone again.