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Bonnie G.
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I love reading things set in places I have lived, and it is hard to find North Dakota set literature, so that par tis great. So far, Yun captures the weird Bakken years and their impact on ND well. I am less convinced by the way she addresses women's vulnerability and commodification, but there are some good places she can go with this, and I am rooting for that.
— Mar 04, 2026 07:53PM
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Bonnie G.
is on page 205 of 320
Elinor is brittle and obsessed with the costs of her great beauty (admittedly, there are costs). She is rude and unapproachable. Bad things for a reporter. Add to that, she is unprepared: she goes to interview a tribal chairman and starts asking a woman about a dead White woman, seemingly unaware of the hundreds of murdered and missing indigenous women in ND. She is terrible at her job. None of this feels honest.
— Mar 07, 2026 05:58PM
Bonnie G.
is on page 145 of 320
I like the approach Yun is taking to power imbalance, but I think she should have limited the modeling storyline. I am glad Elinor was able to cash in on a type of beauty that had brought her nothing but ostracism in her home state of North Dakota, but that focus is't working for me, and I think it blurs Yun's objectives. I also wish Elinor were less unpleasant, but I understand her dissonance and its impacts.
— Mar 05, 2026 06:18PM
