From a place where you don’t have to run away to find yourself, this novel’s young heroine, Berry, joins the ranks of other memorable and spirited girl narrators such as Bone in “Bastard Out of Carolina,” Kaye Gibbon’s Ellen Foster, Lily Owens in The Secret Life of Bees, and Scout from To Kill a Mockingbird.
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