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This book is both really moving and an amazing commentary on our society. Francesca Lia Block creates a beautiful, lush, colorful world and peoples it with a group of friends trying to find their way through life in a culture where youth, hipness, and beauty are valued above all else. Such an important look at the societal condemnation of the aging, and at the punishments doled out to those who refuse to quietly disappear as they grow older. This book is so politically and culturally important, but I also hasten to say that it's the opposite of dry. It's exciting, intense, something easily read in one sitting. This book and its companion, Primavera, are easily my two favorites by Francesca Lia Block. And I'm pretty crazy about the vast majority of what she's written.

2020-08-24 00:54