![]() Ms Dubosarsky deftly conveys the confusion of childhood, the strangeness of things half-glimpsed and only partly understood. ![]() * Publishers Weekly (starred review) * Chilling, elegant, atmospheric. * Booklist (starred review) * 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. This is a masterful look at children's numb surprise to the most unsavoury 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 as their own complicity in them. ![]()
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