I did not enjoy this book very much. I found it a kind of souring experience, and a weird mix of misplaced sympathy and character building, and stark but also kind of affected language used to create the story, the characters and the tone. In short, it felt a lot like poverty porn. And maybe that’s just the late 1980s for you in terms of what books even to be about any more. I’ve read a lot of Southern Gothic novels, as well as, Southern […]
He had not yet seen the little girl.
Vanished by Mary McGarry Morris