Librivox version

[Albin]

Not sure if readers are aware there's a fine, free audio reading by one of Librivox.org's better readers:

http://librivox.org/passing-by-nella-...

Most comments here certainly "get" the idea but seem to miss what a limited point of view "Irene" offers - she's continuously wrong about people (Clare, her husband, her kids) and what's going on. Larson is playing with this "unreliable narrator" right up the ending at the casement window. It's a finely crafted book and deserves close attention.

[Tina]

Irene definitely lived in a bubble world, didn't she? I think that's why the ending had no ambiguity for me about if she pushed Claire. Her world had collapsed around her and this was how she was going to deal with it.