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Darren
is 65% done
This book just keeps getting better and better. I still don't understand why the review I read was so bad. The writing is so unique. It is told from the perspective of a middle-school girl who sees her parents' relationship crumbling while she learns dark secrets about adults' lying. It is also a class struggle between those in her family who left their "bad" neighborhoods for a "better" life, but remain unchanged.
— Oct 26, 2020 02:29AM
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Darren
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This is really compelling. The narrator has now met her strange aunt, who hates her parents, and she is becoming more and more involved in the aunt's life,which is so different from her parents. Her parents have tried to shelter her from the working-class world that they came from, but everyone in her aunt's family accepts her and makes her feel more comfortable. What will happen to her relationship with her parents?
— Oct 19, 2020 06:51AM
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Ok, so this book is soooo good. I've never read anything like it. First of all, I was surprised because the reviews were so bad. One woman basically said the book had no structure and rambled. Not so! It is so finely constructed and deep! I've never read anything like this, except maybe Catcher in the Rye-it has the same perspective of a young person coming of age against the backdrop of adult conformity and lies.
— Oct 19, 2020 05:57AM
