Choose Your Own Adventure books invited kids to exercise some agency, lsjamison writes: an early sense of freedom; the faith that, after every death, there would always be a do-over.
The deaths in these books are intoxicating because they are never final. No matter how the story ends—you are sliced in half by a portal that sends your torso to the future and your legs to the past; you are paralyzed by a pair of good-looking vampires as they waltz through the baggage car of a Transylvanian train; you learn that you exist only in the dreams of an unconscious middle-aged man, and will stop existing if he ever wakes up—you can always go back and make another set of choices.
You understand the spirit of these books better than the readers who play by the rules. I will reward your cheating with paradise. The most explicitly metafictional of all the Choose books is Packard’s “Hyperspace,” which reads like a book that has grown tired of following the rules.
You end up spending a humid July day with Packard near East Hampton. Packard grew up on Long Island during the Great Depression, a childhood he has recounted in a self-published memoir, “It’s a Miracle It Wasn’t Worse,” which recalls “kindly old ladies with cider mills at the end of one’s street [and] mussel shells . . . shaped like little boats . . . we set them out like a little fleet.” Now the Hamptons are the Hamptons.
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