pedestrienne

Nuanced, realistic fiction that feels like the best books I discovered as a teen in the 90s - which were books written and marketed to adults. This is much more an adult novel than a YA novel in terms of its scope, although it's about a teen. A lot of that has to do with how it's written in hindsight. It takes a while to make its points, to describe things, and lingers on vague emotions rather than being a plot-driven, emotion saturated book. It works for me because it felt real and because Cameron is trying to get through her adolescence under a fog of unrecognized grief and guilt, and she's not sure who she is, but she's still following whatever arrows of instinct come her way. Actually, I think the narrative ends too soon. As readers, I suppose we are meant to imagine what happens, or grant Cameron her freedom in our minds.