Mitchell again surprises the reader. "Black Swan Green" is different from all his novels. This book is filled with allusions to all significant works of world literature and still stands apart. And above all because the main character, Jason Taylor, is a boy who secretly writes poetry and struggles with stuttering, although he reminds us of Salinger’s heroes, Bradbury, Harper Lee, but at the same time does not look like any of them. The thirteen chapters of the novel take us from one event in Taylor's life to another. Thirteen months from one January birthday to another it took Jason Taylor to grow up from a rushing, insecure teenager to become an adult. From a duckling to a swan.