Normally, I don’t go for bildungsroman tales. I have no desire to relive my younger days through fictional surrogates, nor do I often find the protagonists interesting enough to care about. They’re all either too smart for their own good or too dumb for the purposes of entertainment. But set one in a mall in the early-90s? Now you’re speaking my language. And Megan McCafferty definitely needs to speak it because this story is stretched as thinly as possible. It works because of the goodwill […]
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The Mall by Megan McCafferty
