I am incredibly gratified of the author's treatment of somewhat taboo issues in young adult literature; she deals with transsexuals, birth control, premarital sex, torture...all without it being too obvious that she is making the reader think about their opinions on the matter. I wholeheartedly approve.
I love the Boston connection, but again with the predictability. It just felt like I knew exactly what was going to happen next.
Interesting connections between lives, that's for sure. But a little on the depressing side, and the ending was incredibly abrupt.
A strange fable about the puppy love between the ninety-year old narrator and a 14 year old prostitute.
I grew up loving her writing (so snappy!) and I was surprised to see that I had never read this one before--a quick read with an old fashioned conflict --think Game of Thrones without the sex and violence, and snappy, funnier dialogue.
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