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I kept telling everyone I liked this book. And, then I realized that it took me over two months to read it--which it certainly shouldn't have, given its relatively unassuming length and short chapters. I think that I wanted to like this book-- I ALMOST liked this book. The prose-poem style made it a Leggi tutto

So I read the blurb for Girlchild - the one that says Tupelo Hassman's debut 'crafts a devastating collage' of her protagonist's world - but I didn't expect the book to literally feel like a collage of only loosely interconnected scenes, which is essentially what it is. The narrative flips back and

From Lilac Wolf and Stuff The cover caught my eye. A trailer that looks like it would feel at home in my trailer park but set in the desserts of Nevada. I started reading and it knocked me over to read a story that followed my own childhood eerily close. It didn't hide how common child sexual abuse is Leggi tutto

American Dream «Questo classico cocktail ha subito alcuni cambiamenti dalla sua prima comparsa. Inizialmente era composto da ambizione e sudore in parti uguali, con una buccia di mela tagliata a spirale come guarnizione, mentre il sogno americano moderno propone come creativo sostituto fortuna inc

The disjointed narrative, made up of flashbacks, legal documents, court proceedings, and bits of the present, didn't work for me in this book because it never allowed Rory to have a voice. And while the fact she doesn't have a voice makes sense in the story, I couldn't connect with her for a long ti Leggi tutto

I bought this book based on Fresh Air's book critic Maureen Corrigan's glowing review. Today, the book made her top 10 list of 2012. Let me say two things: 1) I have not finished the book and, 2) I do not like this book. I continued to hope it would get better, but my hope lagged as the book became

Girlchild is a novel that is unlike almost anything else I've ever read. It is like opening the pages of a young girl's diary and finding the most beautiful poetry. It's funny, tragic, hopeful, devastatingly sad, naive and wise and ultimately glorious. Rory Hendrix lives in poverty with her single m Leggi tutto