Eleanor Kriseman

You know those books that are so well-written and feel so true that the poignancy of the literature bleeds into your real life causing you to reevaluate all your past relationships and reconsider your role in other’s lives, leading you to a point where you become simultaneously happy and sad about the way you may have affected the lives of those around you, and the only way to resolve these emotions is by drowning out these emotions by rereading the book that initially made you feel that way--ultimately causing you to enter into an endless torrent of unresolvable emotion? No? Well, that’s how this book made me feel.

Callie’s coming-of-age, her mechanisms for coping with dismal situations that often felt like they were truly out of her control, and her ultimate resolution resonated a reality of life that lends the novel an undeniable force. The prose is beautiful, and the pacing of the work is such that I defy any reader to put it down for more than a moment without being haunted by its presence. Eleanor Kriseman has crafted a truly remarkable novel. Another great book published by Two Dollar Radio.… (meer)