![]() I loved that all of the action took place during two subsequent summers - it is like coming across a jumble of someone else's photographs in a box and there are so many questions about what happened in between the time when the pictures were taken. this book is a collection of things that happened to two sister characters during their formative years with a father suffering from PTSD, a war-memento metal plate in his head and a penchant for wearing a gorilla mask and hands, a dancer-mother who no longer dances, and is wilting under pressure, and a series of sexually curious and pre-predatory boys metaphorically peering over the fence. there is no individual arc to each story, but neither does it create, at the end of the day, a cohesive novel. This book resides in the porous space between short stories and novel. This is a family story, focused upon the dangerous and subtle undertow of the first awareness of sex and death and their commingling in preadolescent girls. and it manifests itself in a thousand ways in the details of this book - the foundations are disturbed. ![]() I am choosing to picture the sisters in this book as looking like sally mann's photographs. ![]()
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