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Absolutely stunning prose, featuring realistic depictions of teens struggling to care for each other during the buildup to Hurricane Katrina in the fictional Bois Sauvage, Mississippi. The mounting tension of Esch's interior turmoil contrasted with the coming storm creates a pull that makes it hard to look away from Ward's writing. These characters have lingered with me weeks after I finished reading.
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Haunting and heartbreaking. The abject poverty and human desperation portrayed in this story felt overwhelming.
This is a fine novel - well-written, nicely paced, with compelling characters. However, these ratings are subjective and I demoted it to two stars because of multiple vivid descriptions of cruelty and violence to animals. It made it very unpleasant to read, although I should have known about the difficult subject matter before I started.
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It's just so good.
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