Rose Sees Red by Cecil Castellucci is Fame meets Breakfast Club meets Ferris Beuller's Day Off all with a running soundtrack from Sting's album (vinyl album, that is) Dream of the Blue Turtles.
1982. New York. Rose and Yrena, both ballerinas, become fast friends when Yrena, a Soviet citizen due to return to the USSR, go out for a night on the town. Castellucci paints a colorful picture of the era with plenty of references to the pop culture of the time and lots of fashion tips you might want to avoid in 2011 besides giving her characters plenty of opportunity for dreamy speeches about peace all in the span of about 24 hours.
A quick read and a not-too-ponderous introduction to the Cold War and all it meant to those of us (a-hem) who did our coming of age singing "We Are the World".
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