![]() ![]() Laced with humor amid a steady feeling of dread, the atmospheric narrative chillingly evokes lurking forces capable of tarnishing even the most golden and innocent of days. his is a masterful look at children's numb surprise to the most unsavory of adult developments. ![]() In a stunning feat of perspective, Dubosarsky inhabits all 11 girls at once, snaking through a thousand small joys and triumphs and fears and petty grudges as they absorb life's bleakest truths as well their own complicity in them. Unanswerable, they linger past the end of this slender but powerful volume. Questions about responsibility, violence, sex, fear and death bloom beneath their placed surface. Shaped by the girls' growing awareness of the world, her scenes are uneasy dreamscapes. Dubosarsky's spare prose explores the space between innocence and adulthood. ![]()
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