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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't think I would find anything in this book I could relate to. Strange, because I ended up reading the thing in about four hours. This thing just grabbed me and wouldn't really let me go, so, I must have more in common with a 13-year-old girl than I thought. Perhaps, I must be in touch with my...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/863151">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is brilliant and beautiful but made me feel like a bit of a pervert. I couldn't stop getting slightly turned on reading some of the sexual parts and then hating myself for feeling that way. I was impressed with the voice, especially. The entire book is written in first person dialect, simi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/842753">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This crystalline yet greasy story will pull you in fast and push you to outer limits (or throw you &quot;straight into the sun&quot; as unforgettable Luli would say). I laughed and I cried and I felt a little more like an American girl inside.  <br/><br/>(I wanted to add, that as a crazy, mixed up...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/843949">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I think this book is an incredible read. I can't believe it's a first novel. The voice is just amazing and the protagonist, Luli, takes the reader on such a wild, scary, sexy, beautiful ride that it's almost impossible to put the book down. I will be watching this author and waiting impatiently for ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/842723">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This dark and sad debut adult novel was difficult to read, and I won't be adding it to my high school collection. Luli has a horrible life with two alcoholic, poor parents. She runs away to find a better life and finds out that being a hick isn't so bad. There's worse things out there--speed addicts...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73025453">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This memoir of innocence lost didn't knock my socks off with its prose, but I read it in about four hours, so that says something about its compelling narrative. The central character, Luli, is part Lolita, part hopeless white trash and still, you just know she'll make it in the end, even though the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2211088">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Whew! This one is a weird mix of crazy fun redneck and heavy stuff! I loved the writing. But it started out kinda wacky and fun and then took a pretty dark turn to heavy and violent. It reminded me of that movie Something Wild with Melanie Griffith and Jeff Daniels.<br/><br/>I liked it a lot - but...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10835373">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a powerful book, unusual and captivating in its voice and right on the edge of believable throughout, which is what I liked most about it. Main character Luli has it tough--understatement of the year--and if it weren't for a slight dropoff in tension at the end I'd have given this five stars...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10290112">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Just finished the first section, really enjoying the book. I will be recommending it to my book club this weekend. It makes me laugh, always a good thing. Being a transplant to Southern California from Colorado, Montana and Idaho, I can relate to feeling like a hick!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was one of my book club selections and a very fast read.  While the content of the book could be very disturbing, the quality of the writing candy coats events. I ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this book. I liked Luli and would like to know more of her story. ]]></body>
    
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