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Title: alternative title: "Nobody Cares..."
Review: Antonya Nelson is a talented writer. Her words illicit emotional responses. Unfortunately by the end of this book my overall emotional response was "who cares?" A failing for me was Birdie's character arch - basically that there was none. Birdie is an unsympathetic character at the beginning of the book and even less sympathetic by the end. The actual murder mystery woven into the plot is anticlimatic. Either plot device (Birdie's "growth" or the murder's solution) needed to make a stronger impression. In general the book was great dissappointment.
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