This debut novel by author Heather Levy, is chock full of gray areas that authors can tend to shy from for teen protags such as abuse, sexual awakenings, and crime. It tells the story of Sam Mayfair, a young woman struggling to cope with trauma and the murder of her abuser. The death of the […]
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There are nights when I shoot up suddenly, jolted awake by searing nerve pain. In those late hours, I lie still envisioning a slasher breaking into my house wielding a knife or chainsaw or machete (think Robert Rodriguez or Rob Zombie grade of cinematic gore) only to have me beg them to take the left
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Embarrassingly, Rumaan Alam was not on my radar until I heard an interview with him on NPR. As he summarized this recent work for the listeners, I was shocked, as I’m sure you will be if you choose to read it, that it was written a good two years before the pandemic. Like some fiction
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