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186 pages that feels like 486 pages

"She is at odds with everything, she does not fit, an insult to her sex, a stubborn child in a woman’s form, her head bowed and arms wrapped tight around her drawing pad as if it were a door. And when she looks up her gaze always goes to the edge of town. A dreamer scornes her mother. A dreamer mourns her father."

Relatable.

Rereading my favorite book..

All girls are prone to dreaming. She will grow out of it, her parents say—but instead, Adeline feels herself growing in, holding tighter to the stubborn hope of something more. The world should be getting larger. Instead, she feels it shrinking, tightening like chains around her limbs as the flat lines of her own body begin to curve out against it."

Am I being punked? Why is there so many good reviews? I'm about to DNF. I never DNF books.

So painfully boring. . .