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Reviewed on June 1, 2015 | Fiction
Initially, this novel reads like a memoir of a drab, friendless young woman, Eileen Dunlop, a 24-year-old clerical worker in a young men's prison near Boston. Her actions and innermost thoughts in the days leading up to Christmas 1964 are recounted in Karl Ove Knausgaard-like detail describing intense self-loathing, a miserable codependent relationship with her demented, alcoholic father, and even h...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
