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Like a Complete Unknown: A novel
A luminous novel about freedom, persistence, and the power of compassion.
In 1970, a girl's life is not her own. Katya Warshawsky runs away from home rather than settle for the narrow life her parents demand of her. She revels in Chicago's counterculture, plunging into anti-war protests, communal living, and new liberties. But even in this free-wheeling world, she confronts bewildering obstacles. Still, she won't relinquish her dream of becoming an artist or her belief in a better world, and turns to Robert Lewis, hoping the old doctor will have answers.
Robert finds her in his office, barefoot and creating an evocative portrait of his late wife. Eager to help this naive waif, he worries when she vanishes before he has the chance. His years of practice have shown him the dangers that await a girl like Katya and he ventures into unfamiliar streets in search of her. Katya's situation grows more perilous as she struggles to get her bearings and rescue herself, while Robert, aided by a cunning draft-dodger and a sympathetic waitress, confronts new moral dilemmas.
Fans of Anne Tyler and Elizabeth Berg will love this deeply felt and compelling story of redemption that echoes our own complex social times.
Review
Anara Guard's Like a Complete Unknown is a stunning debut novel following a pregnant teenager and her Odyssean adventures through 1970s Chicago. As young Katya navigates the city's subcultures in search of a place where she belongs, she is constantly haunted by both her past and future, intertwining forces that manifest in broken promises, familiar faces, and the unwelcome being growing inside her. Surrounding the central story in a web of misadventures through the city's underground and the comings and goings of hippies and luminaries, the cast of characters symbolize a colorful ethos of the 70s, ranging from a widowed gynecologist, a draft dodger, and a kind psychic. Through Guard's powerful use of perspective, we feel through each character the chill of loneliness and the stagnant air of withering hope, all against the honking and shouting of a bustling city.
There are a few areas throughout the plot that show potential for a deeper conversation, although the novel already juggles huge cultural and political topics with the nuances of human emotion and inner conflict. Katya's Polish immigrant parents are central characters in the beginning of the novel but fade into the background as her story progresses; although her leaving her family and community is a pivotal point in her character development, the mixture of disdain and hope with which she looks back seems to promise a larger, congruous closure.
Katya's misadventures are heart-wrenching and vivid, but Guard's most captivating writing is found in her keen understanding of the social and cultural issues that seeped into everyday life during Nixon and the Vietnam War. Her characters struggle to understand a society where violence is so entrenched and normalized that young men are being called off to what many consider a futile war, while at home, young women fight against cultural norms and a largely Christian-centric, male politic that denies women reproductive healthcare and autonomy over their own bodies. Although the story is set decades ago, the characters' sympathetic fury echoes familiarity to today's reader.
A talented poet and promising novelist, Guard's voice is lyrical and self-aware, allowing the reader to fully immerse themself in Katya's angst and yearnings with a gentle grace that can only come from sympathetic knowing. While her deep understanding of story and character show mastery of the bildungsroman, Guard also weaves in a poetic sensitivity through tender language, the intertwining of the crafts lulling her reader into the characters' painful, beautiful world.
4 stars --San Francisco Book Review
This story of change, transformation, and growth captures not only the social and political milieu of the 1960s, but its pitfalls and opportunities. Readers who want a sense of what these times were like and the struggles experienced by those both within and outside of the system will find Like A Complete Unknown a vivid, thought-provoking story that captures this world from two different experiences. --D. Donovan, Senior Reviewer, Midwest Book Review
In 1970, a girl's life is not her own. Katya Warshawsky runs away from home rather than settle for the narrow life her parents demand of her. She revels in Chicago's counterculture, plunging into anti-war protests, communal living, and new liberties. But even in this free-wheeling world, she confronts bewildering obstacles. Still, she won't relinquish her dream of becoming an artist or her belief in a better world, and turns to Robert Lewis, hoping the old doctor will have answers.
Robert finds her in his office, barefoot and creating an evocative portrait of his late wife. Eager to help this naive waif, he worries when she vanishes before he has the chance. His years of practice have shown him the dangers that await a girl like Katya and he ventures into unfamiliar streets in search of her. Katya's situation grows more perilous as she struggles to get her bearings and rescue herself, while Robert, aided by a cunning draft-dodger and a sympathetic waitress, confronts new moral dilemmas.
Fans of Anne Tyler and Elizabeth Berg will love this deeply felt and compelling story of redemption that echoes our own complex social times.
Review
Anara Guard's Like a Complete Unknown is a stunning debut novel following a pregnant teenager and her Odyssean adventures through 1970s Chicago. As young Katya navigates the city's subcultures in search of a place where she belongs, she is constantly haunted by both her past and future, intertwining forces that manifest in broken promises, familiar faces, and the unwelcome being growing inside her. Surrounding the central story in a web of misadventures through the city's underground and the comings and goings of hippies and luminaries, the cast of characters symbolize a colorful ethos of the 70s, ranging from a widowed gynecologist, a draft dodger, and a kind psychic. Through Guard's powerful use of perspective, we feel through each character the chill of loneliness and the stagnant air of withering hope, all against the honking and shouting of a bustling city.
There are a few areas throughout the plot that show potential for a deeper conversation, although the novel already juggles huge cultural and political topics with the nuances of human emotion and inner conflict. Katya's Polish immigrant parents are central characters in the beginning of the novel but fade into the background as her story progresses; although her leaving her family and community is a pivotal point in her character development, the mixture of disdain and hope with which she looks back seems to promise a larger, congruous closure.
Katya's misadventures are heart-wrenching and vivid, but Guard's most captivating writing is found in her keen understanding of the social and cultural issues that seeped into everyday life during Nixon and the Vietnam War. Her characters struggle to understand a society where violence is so entrenched and normalized that young men are being called off to what many consider a futile war, while at home, young women fight against cultural norms and a largely Christian-centric, male politic that denies women reproductive healthcare and autonomy over their own bodies. Although the story is set decades ago, the characters' sympathetic fury echoes familiarity to today's reader.
A talented poet and promising novelist, Guard's voice is lyrical and self-aware, allowing the reader to fully immerse themself in Katya's angst and yearnings with a gentle grace that can only come from sympathetic knowing. While her deep understanding of story and character show mastery of the bildungsroman, Guard also weaves in a poetic sensitivity through tender language, the intertwining of the crafts lulling her reader into the characters' painful, beautiful world.
4 stars --San Francisco Book Review
This story of change, transformation, and growth captures not only the social and political milieu of the 1960s, but its pitfalls and opportunities. Readers who want a sense of what these times were like and the struggles experienced by those both within and outside of the system will find Like A Complete Unknown a vivid, thought-provoking story that captures this world from two different experiences. --D. Donovan, Senior Reviewer, Midwest Book Review
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First published March 8, 2022
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Anara Guard
15 books12 followersAnara Guard no longer uses Goodreads (although may return if and when greater oversight of review-bombers, fake profiles, and other falsehoods is provided). She grew up in Chicago where her first job was tending the corner newsstand for a penny a minute while Carl the Newspaper Man ate his lunch at Steinway's drug store. Her debut novel LIKE A COMPLETE UNKNOWN was published in March 2022. She studied writing at Urban Gateways Young Writers Workshop of Chicago with Kathleen Agena, Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts with Norman Corwin, St. Joseph's College with Stu Dybek, Bread Loaf Writers Conference with Robert Cohen and Alix Ohlin, and the Community of Writers. She graduated from Kenyon College and Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science in Boston. She is also the author of two collections of short stories, "Remedies for Hunger" (2014) and "The Sound of One Body" (2010), as well as a poetry collection, "Hand on My Heart" (2019). In 2024, a second poetry collection will be published by The Poetry Box. She lives in northern California with her husband and yard dragon.
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May 11, 2022
Anara Guard's novel "Like A Complete Unknown" skillfully weaves the music and cultural touchstones of the sixties into a compelling story of a lonely doctor and a naive runaway girl, searching for family and for self. Guard's prose is lyrical and her characters are realistic and fully formed in this close observation of Chicago during the Vietnam War, a time when women had few choices over their bodies or their lives.
Bravo!
Bravo!
February 25, 2022
I really enjoyed this book. I love all the Chicago references and the story took me back to my youth. Well done, Anara Guard!
March 9, 2022
Like a complete unknown; a novel by Anara Guard, is a rich coming-of-age book, a layered look at the simmering cultural and emotional changes inherent in living through the late 1960’s and early 70’s.
Like the era’s macramé art, the novel weaves together story lines from two main characters- Katya (aka Cathy) is coming of age as a teenager, caught between the old ways, needs, and expectations of her Polish immigrant parents, and the anti-war, anti-establishment, pro-sexual revolution counter-culture of the urban young in Chicago. Our other protagonist, a fifty-something, possibly near-retirement gynecologist, Robert, has been drifting through life for the past eight years, numb to its pleasures as he grieved the loss of his wife. His isn’t technically a coming of age, but his reawakening into living life rather than surviving it is similar to Katya’s awakening. Their paths cross only briefly at first, but the interaction sparks ongoing repercussions that leave them both changed and facing the rapidly changing world with more optimism and understanding.
I loved how this author took me back in time to recent history to remind me how the cultural shifts we currently live in the outcome of were not actually inevitable, but were fought for and lived through by people who were making it up as they went along. A youth who were reacting to and pushing against boundaries and creating a better world as best they could. And an older generation who either fought against or embraced or even helped bring about those changes.
The book brought to life the colors and smells and sounds of that culture-shifting time – the fringed and colorful clothes, the wild hair and peace signs and crazy ideas of free love and human equality and living for today that shook previous generations and tried to usher in the New Age. It’s sobering to realize that some fifty years after those battles -- for sexual equality and abortion rights, for freedom to love who you chose, for gender equality and opportunity --some of those battles are still un-won or having to be fought for all over again.
Against that backdrop, the author gives me characters who make choices (or non-choices, in some instances) that create their own journeys of discovery. Katya is so true to her age – both awake and asleep, both wise and immature, both creatively seeing the world around her with the open eyes of an artist and yet often blind to the repercussions of her decisions. To quote the book from an early chapter, “Months later, when she first saw a yin-yang symbol, Katya would recognize in it the shape of these days downtown: how they were half dark/half bright, freedom wrapping around fear that curved around a heady sense of liberation.” And Robert, who didn’t know he needed shaking up but who opens to a challenge that spurs him to reopen his heart, and what a giving heart he discovers he had all along. The other characters in the book are richly rendered, full of life and well rounded people in their own right, who color and texturize Katya’s and Robert’s journeys the way our own friends and family fill out our lives.
Throughout the book, I cheer for, fear for, am encouraged by and inspired by and worried for, and learn to love these characters in this story of first and second chances, of large changes and intimate challenges, of Chicago and The Sixties, of losing and gaining family, freedoms and choices. I never knew where it was going (so it kept me up way too late several nights!) but I am grateful to have been along on the journey with the characters, with this brilliant and insightful author, and with this moving, challenging, and ultimately heartwarming book.
Like the era’s macramé art, the novel weaves together story lines from two main characters- Katya (aka Cathy) is coming of age as a teenager, caught between the old ways, needs, and expectations of her Polish immigrant parents, and the anti-war, anti-establishment, pro-sexual revolution counter-culture of the urban young in Chicago. Our other protagonist, a fifty-something, possibly near-retirement gynecologist, Robert, has been drifting through life for the past eight years, numb to its pleasures as he grieved the loss of his wife. His isn’t technically a coming of age, but his reawakening into living life rather than surviving it is similar to Katya’s awakening. Their paths cross only briefly at first, but the interaction sparks ongoing repercussions that leave them both changed and facing the rapidly changing world with more optimism and understanding.
I loved how this author took me back in time to recent history to remind me how the cultural shifts we currently live in the outcome of were not actually inevitable, but were fought for and lived through by people who were making it up as they went along. A youth who were reacting to and pushing against boundaries and creating a better world as best they could. And an older generation who either fought against or embraced or even helped bring about those changes.
The book brought to life the colors and smells and sounds of that culture-shifting time – the fringed and colorful clothes, the wild hair and peace signs and crazy ideas of free love and human equality and living for today that shook previous generations and tried to usher in the New Age. It’s sobering to realize that some fifty years after those battles -- for sexual equality and abortion rights, for freedom to love who you chose, for gender equality and opportunity --some of those battles are still un-won or having to be fought for all over again.
Against that backdrop, the author gives me characters who make choices (or non-choices, in some instances) that create their own journeys of discovery. Katya is so true to her age – both awake and asleep, both wise and immature, both creatively seeing the world around her with the open eyes of an artist and yet often blind to the repercussions of her decisions. To quote the book from an early chapter, “Months later, when she first saw a yin-yang symbol, Katya would recognize in it the shape of these days downtown: how they were half dark/half bright, freedom wrapping around fear that curved around a heady sense of liberation.” And Robert, who didn’t know he needed shaking up but who opens to a challenge that spurs him to reopen his heart, and what a giving heart he discovers he had all along. The other characters in the book are richly rendered, full of life and well rounded people in their own right, who color and texturize Katya’s and Robert’s journeys the way our own friends and family fill out our lives.
Throughout the book, I cheer for, fear for, am encouraged by and inspired by and worried for, and learn to love these characters in this story of first and second chances, of large changes and intimate challenges, of Chicago and The Sixties, of losing and gaining family, freedoms and choices. I never knew where it was going (so it kept me up way too late several nights!) but I am grateful to have been along on the journey with the characters, with this brilliant and insightful author, and with this moving, challenging, and ultimately heartwarming book.
May 28, 2022
A runaway pregnant teen named Katya Warshawsky. A widowed empathetic doctor named Robert Lewis. The Chicago streets of the late 1960s pulse with hippie harmonies, tie-dye fabrics, and anti-war protestors. Katya dreams of a more creative life than she finds at her working-class home; thus, she launches onto the streets and meets up with various characters who help and hinder her as she tries to understand her mixed-up world. Robert steps out of his comfortable office life into the streets, determined to find Katya and help her with her pregnancy while also finding solace from his lonely life. A remarkable double-layered journey of self-discovery in an era in many ways starkly parallel to our own. Masterful character development and a detailed tapestry of people, places, and historical detail make for a compelling, memorable novel.
February 17, 2022
A week before her sixteenth birthday Katya is shocked and dismayed when her parents announce that she is to quit school and join her mother cleaning office buildings at night to help support her brother in college. Never mind that she, too, has dreams and is a talented artist. Unwilling to accept a life of someone else's choosing, Katya packs a bag and runs away, disappearing into the city of Chicago. Though she is finally free to forge her own path, being on her own results in greater challenges than she had anticipated.
I was pleasantly surprised at how well I enjoyed this story, and I appreciated that it skirted some of the literary tropes I was half-expecting to see. The author does a nice job building an atmosphere of late 60s/early 70s, and I found the narrative refreshing and well done overall. I empathized with and was rooting for Katya all the way.
I received this ARC via LibraryThing's Early Reviewers program.
I was pleasantly surprised at how well I enjoyed this story, and I appreciated that it skirted some of the literary tropes I was half-expecting to see. The author does a nice job building an atmosphere of late 60s/early 70s, and I found the narrative refreshing and well done overall. I empathized with and was rooting for Katya all the way.
I received this ARC via LibraryThing's Early Reviewers program.
March 31, 2022
I was in college during the sixties, so this book rang every bell with the musical references, Chicago streets and landmarks, the days of hippies and teen pregnancies hitting naive teens everywhere. It has an unusual and perhaps “fairy tale” ending, but it can be forgiven for its well written walk down memory lane.
June 22, 2022
I enjoyed this somewhat nostalgic look at 1970 Chicago, though the story was mostly sad. I was happy to see a couple of older characters get their due, though. They were pretty cool, and this author gave them credit for it. (Not going to divulge more here, due to spoilers!)
April 5, 2023
War. “HUNH! What is it GOOD FOR? Ab os lute lee NOTHIN!”* Who is it that thinks it’s still useful? And worth spending 3.7% or more of our gross domestic product on as of 2020? (Stockholm International Peace Institute, Wikipedia)
I’ve been mulling over these questions for at least 50 years now, and wanted to read like a complete unknown by Sacramento’s Anara Guard about wartime, Vietnam, from a perspective set in metropolitan Chicago 1969-70, through the lens of about half a dozen characters, two main ones followed closely, a female and male. As a cis-gendered, heterosexual female who had grown up due north (Milwaukee) only about two years earlier than Katya, one of Guard’s main characters, I had a hard time “emotionally distancing myself” from the “novel,” but maybe that’s the point.
The music she references (Doors “When you’re strange,” “When the moon is in the seventh house” from Hair, etc.), the clothing (jeans, army surplus, embroidered sheepskin vest) and definitely the weather (hot, sweaty, humid summer; cold, brutal winter, wind off Lake Michigan) spoke to every memory of my late teen and early 1970s years. And the conundrums and quandaries of being an intelligent, creative, rebellious, extremely naïve young woman expected by her parents only to “get a good husband” in a brave new world full of global literature, film and TV images; sex, drugs and rock and roll. She gripped me like a pair of Beatle boots from the back of the closet that had shrunk up tight. Ouch!
I could have “ended up like” that. The whole thing, especially the last third, gripped me viscerally every time Katya came into view – I could have been like that. I WAS like that! rang through my brain, heart and body as she went through totally unnecessary physical, emotional, social, economic and mental suffering as a gross injustice for her trust, love, kindness, sensitivity, sexuality and compassion.
Guard’s action in the last few chapters is ALL immediate, ALL tooth-grindingly physical and relationship-bound, climaxing in childbirth and "finding a new life." Is that “the difference between girls and boys?” Do we really have different foci and “value systems?” Experiences and expectations in society and/ because of thOur biological lives?
Her other, older, very sympathetic male main character is so good at heart, missing his dead wife so much and being so truly, unassumingly HELPFUL where her erotic partner was NOT shows a good contrast in possibilities. An excellent first novel. May there be many more!
* Written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong for the Motown label in 1969, Edwin Starr was the vocalist when “War” was a number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1970. https://genius.com/Edwin-starr-war-ly...
I’ve been mulling over these questions for at least 50 years now, and wanted to read like a complete unknown by Sacramento’s Anara Guard about wartime, Vietnam, from a perspective set in metropolitan Chicago 1969-70, through the lens of about half a dozen characters, two main ones followed closely, a female and male. As a cis-gendered, heterosexual female who had grown up due north (Milwaukee) only about two years earlier than Katya, one of Guard’s main characters, I had a hard time “emotionally distancing myself” from the “novel,” but maybe that’s the point.
The music she references (Doors “When you’re strange,” “When the moon is in the seventh house” from Hair, etc.), the clothing (jeans, army surplus, embroidered sheepskin vest) and definitely the weather (hot, sweaty, humid summer; cold, brutal winter, wind off Lake Michigan) spoke to every memory of my late teen and early 1970s years. And the conundrums and quandaries of being an intelligent, creative, rebellious, extremely naïve young woman expected by her parents only to “get a good husband” in a brave new world full of global literature, film and TV images; sex, drugs and rock and roll. She gripped me like a pair of Beatle boots from the back of the closet that had shrunk up tight. Ouch!
I could have “ended up like” that. The whole thing, especially the last third, gripped me viscerally every time Katya came into view – I could have been like that. I WAS like that! rang through my brain, heart and body as she went through totally unnecessary physical, emotional, social, economic and mental suffering as a gross injustice for her trust, love, kindness, sensitivity, sexuality and compassion.
Guard’s action in the last few chapters is ALL immediate, ALL tooth-grindingly physical and relationship-bound, climaxing in childbirth and "finding a new life." Is that “the difference between girls and boys?” Do we really have different foci and “value systems?” Experiences and expectations in society and/ because of thOur biological lives?
Her other, older, very sympathetic male main character is so good at heart, missing his dead wife so much and being so truly, unassumingly HELPFUL where her erotic partner was NOT shows a good contrast in possibilities. An excellent first novel. May there be many more!
* Written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong for the Motown label in 1969, Edwin Starr was the vocalist when “War” was a number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1970. https://genius.com/Edwin-starr-war-ly...
October 13, 2025
Poignant read with compelling, realistic, and lovable character characters. This book confronts the realities of so many in the outskirts of our society, and the intersection of healthcare workers and their oaths to serve those to the best of their abilities. It sets place in a time where access to abortion and proper healthcare is unaffordable, inaccessible, and at times downright illegal. The time and conflicts can be related very much to today, but are also very clearly set within their time period with relevant current events. I found myself impressed by the authors research and knowledge in the subjects she writes about, as it truly feels like the characters have experienced what she wrote them through. I met the author at a book fair and I’m so glad I found this book. Will be recommending to all.
August 16, 2022
Katya's family leaves her no choice but to run away when they tell her she must drop out of school to work. She must survive on her own and life becomes even harder when she becomes pregnant. I loved all the references to Chicago, the hippie movement and political unrest. The Janes, who provided safe abortions in the pre Roe era make a cameo appearance.
January 12, 2024
1970 is a tough time to write about without sinking into the stereotypes of earlier, mostly male tales.
Guard deftly both accommodates and surpasses cliche by taking the archetype teenage runaway story and giving it new gravitas. This is not a story about a misunderstood teenager. There is a real threat: Katya must leave school and join her immigrant mother on the cleaning crew, the only future her family can envision. No wonder guitar-playing hippies passing through seem to offer a reasonable alternative.
Katya is then plunged into the full range of the ups and downs that would befall a driftless teenage girl as she sinks into the counterculture: the lure of drugs and opportunity to change the world that leaves her left out and lonely, the hunger for belonging and art that devolves into a daily struggle for mere subsistence; the search for family that settles into the need for a simple place to sleep, the first love with a handsome radical who knocks her up and out. Katya’s journey is depicted in such exquisite detail, you feel each danger and delight, as if you were walking on her own bruised and bleeding feet, desperately seeking a mattress and a meal from various characters who offer hope and deliver disappointment.
A parallel, intersecting storyline balances all this. An aging, widowed doctor saves souls—from secretly writing letters to keep boys from the draft, to helping girls in trouble as certainly the artistic, barefoot and pregnant Katya qualifies. When she disappears, he partners with a hungry draft dodger to find her, and a waitress with a hidden profession to help her.
Ultimately Katya, with the help of these others, is able to manage her pregnancy and the birth and destiny of her child, each dealing with the life or death decisions involved when a girl gets in trouble. How they reconcile this is rendered in vivid detail and inspiring emotion—a perfect merging of the best and worst of the seismic change of that era, with an echo of warning to our own. Guard has nailed it.
Guard deftly both accommodates and surpasses cliche by taking the archetype teenage runaway story and giving it new gravitas. This is not a story about a misunderstood teenager. There is a real threat: Katya must leave school and join her immigrant mother on the cleaning crew, the only future her family can envision. No wonder guitar-playing hippies passing through seem to offer a reasonable alternative.
Katya is then plunged into the full range of the ups and downs that would befall a driftless teenage girl as she sinks into the counterculture: the lure of drugs and opportunity to change the world that leaves her left out and lonely, the hunger for belonging and art that devolves into a daily struggle for mere subsistence; the search for family that settles into the need for a simple place to sleep, the first love with a handsome radical who knocks her up and out. Katya’s journey is depicted in such exquisite detail, you feel each danger and delight, as if you were walking on her own bruised and bleeding feet, desperately seeking a mattress and a meal from various characters who offer hope and deliver disappointment.
A parallel, intersecting storyline balances all this. An aging, widowed doctor saves souls—from secretly writing letters to keep boys from the draft, to helping girls in trouble as certainly the artistic, barefoot and pregnant Katya qualifies. When she disappears, he partners with a hungry draft dodger to find her, and a waitress with a hidden profession to help her.
Ultimately Katya, with the help of these others, is able to manage her pregnancy and the birth and destiny of her child, each dealing with the life or death decisions involved when a girl gets in trouble. How they reconcile this is rendered in vivid detail and inspiring emotion—a perfect merging of the best and worst of the seismic change of that era, with an echo of warning to our own. Guard has nailed it.
September 11, 2022
When I saw Anara wrote a book, I had to buy it - she and I knew each other long ago in the yoga world. I was riveted to her words, the elegancy of the flow as she distinctly painted the characters into those you feel you know, are right there.
A troubled young girl runs away as she's unsupported by her family and Anara describes the following months. Indeed sad, troubling at times, yet poignant. The care of an older person for this young girl is dear, his pursuit of her delightfully sweet.
Anara envelops 70s Chicago in a way that made me feel like I knew it complete. A must read!
A troubled young girl runs away as she's unsupported by her family and Anara describes the following months. Indeed sad, troubling at times, yet poignant. The care of an older person for this young girl is dear, his pursuit of her delightfully sweet.
Anara envelops 70s Chicago in a way that made me feel like I knew it complete. A must read!
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