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Title: A.M Homes is a soothsayer!
Review: And I thought her short story about a teenage boy having sex with his sister's barbie doll was outrageous:Music for the torching goes even farther. With painfully realistic, flawed characters, Music for the Torching has a climax which left me speechless: where in a nine year old boy takes a classmate hostage in the cloak room and shoots him in the head. I wanted to be re-assured its only a story, that things like this don't happen in the real world, but all I have to do is flip on the T.V. or buy a newspaper to see that indeed such extreme violence is not fantasy but fact. On the brink of the Columbine massacre, Homes is dead on target. She couldn't be more timely or realistic. And not only are her plot and characters incredible but so is her method of story-telling. Homes is by far one of the best writers of our generation and she has already been a great influence on my own writing. I can't wait to see more from her.
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