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This reads like a long prose poem that will at times make you uncomfortable, at other times fill you with a strange sense of longing/yearning/anomie, and at other times still, infuriate you (as the quote from Elissa Schappell rightly observes). The writing is excellent. The eye for detail and description couldn't be sharper. It is the "green girl" herself who will infuriate you... her coming of age is maybe too much the way growing up really is: Full of angst, her attempts to draw out larger mea
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