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The almost stream-of-consciousness style of this novel allows phrases of perfect veracity to be slipped into the narrative, which, when noticed, offer striking revelations straight from the jumbled mind of an abused child (who is but more clever for it). Infused with this authenticity, the narrative follows her brief first-person account of two eventful years of her early life. Compared in the cover blurb to Holden Caulfield, I find Ellen to be more reminiscent of her contemporary, Lily Owens (T
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