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My Hot Date & Other Embarrassments Tsuchika Nishimura The way aluminium confetti poursBy Noah Van Sciver. Published by Kilgore Books. Softcover, 64 pages, B&W, 2015. Since it's initial publication in 2015, My Hot Date has becoming something of a modern classic. It's a coming of age story, told by one of this generation's best story tellers. This autobiographical story is set in Phoenix, AZ in the late 1990s. A young Noah Van Sciver is a poor skater kid, trying to figure out what it means to "become a man." He meets a young woman in an