Everything you need to understand or teach The Instructions by Adam Levin.
The Instructions is the pre-adolescent story of Gurion ben-Judah Maccabee, a precocious and prolix Jewish boy of 10 whose supercharged brain seems to function on caffeine and to focus on endless trivia.
The energy in The Instructions is essentially inward-looking rather than expansionist——the dark self-obsession of the adolescent fixated on his own inward emotional struggles rather than those involving other people, as in marriage, politics, war or the arts...