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A beautiful memoir about his teenage years and the injury, and eventual loss, of his older sister to a car accident. While the book reads as a whole, and is chronologically arranged over the span of about 8 years, each "chapter" works more like a stand-alone essay, connected to the whole, but also standing on its own. Jon Pineda is a poet, and that background is obvious in so many of the essays, in the word choice, the development of metaphor, and his comfort in trusting the power of an image to
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