Title: fully worth the trip
Product review: This novel is extremely fun, loving, mischievous and joyful. It's kind of like "White Oleander" except less melodramatic and not depressing. Like WO, it's about a girl who gets abandoned by her mom and gets shunted from foster home to foster home. But CCL has a lot more music to it than WO, esp. since the main character, Miri, is a musician. Nice evocation of the Austin music scene and of '80s and '90s musical culture. I bet Lisa Borders will be The Next Big Thing--hey, based on this she already is.
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