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114 ratings, 3.19 average rating, 11 reviews
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published
1999
by Grove Press
binding
Paperback, 224 pages
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Unknown
isbn
0802135986
(isbn13: 9780802135988)
description
From one of the most daring young writers in America, Jesus Saves, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, is a suburban gothic that explores the s...more
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Darcey Steinke loves the way tract housing developments look spread upon a hillside at night. She loves the way litter looks in the gutter of street with no sidewalks and she actually names the name-brand litter. She makes Lutheranism seem sexy and being a teenaged girl casually terrifying. One of Chelsea's really born-again hometown friends once visited our apartment and the first and only thing in it she touched was my copy of this book, reading only the spine. When she saw the cover, she ...more
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Set in the South surrounded by strip malls and subdivisions, double stories about a little girl that's kidnapped and what's going through her fantasyland head and a preacher's daughter who's adrift in a sea of teenage sex and drugs and questioning everything, and how their lives intersect. It's kind of confusing, I don't think everyone would like it, but I did.
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In my imagination wonder woman looks a lot like Darcey Steinke. she's my lit superhero. I only thanked six people in my graduation speech and she was one of them. Easily in the top five of my all time favorite writers.
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Read in September, 2000
So gritty and grueling, in its exploration of the abuse of young women. Certain scenes from this novel still haunt me. Plus, the writing is very straight forward and confrontational, which I liked.
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Read in October, 2008
Every bit of imagery in this story was fetid. In that sort of "The world is so ugly it's beautiful" sort of way. It got really tiresome.
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Read in January, 2008
Not terrible, but far from wonderful. I was not in the mood for kidnapping and molesting children.
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Story of two girls, one of whom is kidnapped, it didn't leave much of an impression.
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Read in May, 1997
read this book if you are into high school drugs... its way too unimportant.
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Read in October, 2003
It's a wonderful trip inside the architecture of victimhood.
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