Igby goes down

„Igby goes down“ is a story about a seventeen year old boy trying to break out of his American High Society family. There is just one similarity that all members of the family share, they are blood tied. Igby´s father had a nervous breakdown and is in a psychiatry. His mother is a very hatable, cold-hearted woman who is not able to live without her “peppies”. And finally his three years older brother Oliver. He was the best in his class, goes to Columbia University and is a young Rebublican. Igby was his entire life in Oliver´s shadow. He got kicked out of several schools, was according to his mother a pathological liar and just did not fit in. In...