Title: A ....
Product review: What's stunning about this book is the PR and the blindness of most critics who have been doing cartwheels. There is no way at all that this is a convincing voice of a 14-year-old girl. It's too smart, too subtle, too mature, too sophisticated. I could not suspend, no, *crush*, disbelief long enough to enjoy it, and found myself insulted by the author, editor, publisher and reviewers who have put one over on the reading public, which has, sheep-like, made this book a wild success. The book is in its own way as bad as some early Michael Cunningham (A Home at the End of the World) where he has children observing life with the exact same richness of perception as adults. A Reader's Manifesto is absolutely right--reviewers are snowed nowadays by beautiful sentences no matter how opaque, or in this case, how unlikely they are.
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