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Lindsey Z
Jan 28, 2013 rated it really liked it
Re-read this with my seniors in a Banned Books course. It was powerful to read it through that lens, thinking about the novel's major themes & topics in the context of books that have been challenged and banned recently (and why). You can definitely tell this is her first novel, as the voice and experimentation aren't as honed as in her later works. A painful meditation on beauty standards, ugliness, race, class, and violence. Worthy of many re-reads. ...more
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