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Beautiful, flowing prose, combined with visceral, violent content. And I don't mean violent in that heads are getting chopped off and guts are spilling everywhere. That sort of thing is much easier to stomach than what's in this book. Here, young girls are menaced by their fathers and they're treated as commodities by the people who are supposed to love them. Strangers' eyes run up and down their bodies and as young teenagers, men a decade older fight over them.
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I avoided this book for years due to the hype. I finally picked it up on a whim and flew through it in a little over a week. It's a strangely compelling book with an episodic, almost cyclical storyline that echoes real life, centered on an uncomfortably one-sided friendship, as narrated by an emotionally codependent girl. Set in an impoverished neighborhood in Naples, there's a grit and that grounds the high emotions, and layers of monetary and gender inequality that complicate the relationships
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