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Brilliant. A classic. To me, it's all in the voice. If a novel has a great voice, a memorable voice--which this one does--I'll follow the writer anywhere, even into the dark dark depths of life, which is where this book takes you. And yet it doesn't take you there without a sense of that endurance and strength are core elements of most humans, even children.
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I remember listening to an interview with Dorothy Allison on NPR when the book first came out. It had mentally marked it as a TBR title, but never got round to actually buying the novel.
I had a fairly good idea about the story line, so there were no surprises for me, despite the disturbing nature of the events that the young Bone experiences. What stood out in my reading of the novel is the strained relationship between the mother and child, something that is not 'talked' about explicitly by Bo ...more
I had a fairly good idea about the story line, so there were no surprises for me, despite the disturbing nature of the events that the young Bone experiences. What stood out in my reading of the novel is the strained relationship between the mother and child, something that is not 'talked' about explicitly by Bo ...more
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