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Reviewed on December 1, 2010
In her first novel, Braunstein, a recipient of the Rona Jaffe Writers' Award, gives us a complex and multifaceted study of children who conquer bad childhoods—and children who cannot. Leonora is a good girl from a good family; she's cautious, studious, and obedient. Her family had supplied a code word that any stranger must know before she follows him. Nevertheless, she agrees to help the wrong stranger, and soon her picture is appearing...Log In or Sign Up to Read More