Another Dimension of YA Author Mike Albo

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Town & Country cover interview with John Waters. You may have caught one of his monologue performances or performing with his Unitard trio at New York’s Joe’s Pub.

You might’ve read one of his novels — maybe The Underminer, co-written with Virginia Heffernan. One of his online offerings, such as Spermhood: Diary of a Donor?If you’re from the D.C.

area, of a certain Gen X age, you may have even been a classmate at West Springfield High School. If so, he’d offer that’s not much of a guarantee you’d have ever known him.“I get so embarrassed about seeming uncool,” he easily admits. “Which is sort of the theme of my entire life, I guess.”While Albo seems amused by the self-abasement, memories of the awkward discomfort of adolescence have been a central part of his life in recent years.

Those memories have been a crucial ingredient in his latest creation, his first Young Adult novel, Another Dimension of Us.“In 1986, Tommy Gaye is in love with his best friend, a budding teen poet Renaldo Calabasas,” begins the book-jacket excerpt. “In 2044, Herron High student Pris Devrees jolts awake after having a strange nightmare about a boy named Tommy and a house in the neighborhood the locals affectionately call ‘The Murder House.'”The teaser rightfully prepares readers for a gripping sci-fi/horror novel, but the real juice of this teen terror is the emotions Albo’s characters navigate.