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May 13, 2010
Elizabeth (Alaska)
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Can this be as good as her Eve Green? One of the components that is the same is her ability to make the natural world a part of the story. This time it is the sea primarily, and because of that, for me, it makes this one just slightly better.
Fletcher alternates between a first person narrative - Moira - and that of third person limited. This works because it feels as if Moira only switches to telling her story in third person. We know only what Moira knows and sees. The prose is easy. Elsewhere, ...more
Fletcher alternates between a first person narrative - Moira - and that of third person limited. This works because it feels as if Moira only switches to telling her story in third person. We know only what Moira knows and sees. The prose is easy. Elsewhere, ...more
Susan Fletcher has a wonderful lyric writing style and her characters have depth but the tone doesn't change at all. It goes on and on in incomplete sentences like the tide washing in and out. Perhaps this was too close to home for me. I admired it, but found it depressing.
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