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Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on May 1, 2011
The title story of this collection of sixteen is a beautifully crafted shocker. It lulls us with its shy, compassionate hero and its promise of young love and then, in one violent sentence, undermines all our assumptions. In less obvious ways Chambers shakes up our expectations in all the pieces—our expectations of the matter of adolescence and of the short f...Log In or Sign Up to Read More