Jamie S. (InkBucket) reviewed on 7/8/2006 + 17 more book reviews

The main character, Pearl, narrates the interesting and terrifying story of her mother's life and tries to intertwine her observations into the context of her own life. This novel would have been amazing had the main character not been a stuck-up, narcissictic harpy, letting her bored and naieve ruminations unhappily influence the flavor of the story, which was unhappy enough as it was. However, the chapters that Pearl's mother narrated were really quite breathtaking.

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