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Title: Worth reading
Review: While the main character in the book, Nomi, has a more difficult life than many, her story has a universal quality to it. It is beautifully told, beautifully written, sometimes excruciatingly real.Her family and her community leave her to grow up by her own wits - they love her but they are too self-involved and oblivious to notice her, and they simply don't have the tools to help young people cope in the world. So she goes about figuring it out on her own, primarily in search of someone who will just pay attention to her.Toews has created in Nomi a painfully real character, one who is a victim of circumstances but also recognizes that she would be free to make choices if she had it in her to do so.I highly recommend this story to both readers and writers.
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