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Title: subtle and haunting
Review: I enjoyed this spare, quiet impressionistic novel, about a boy who runs away from the backwaters of Australia to the horse country of Maryland, haunted by the death of his mother. I liked that Day, a boy more comfortable with animals than with normal human life, comes into collision with a fiery unpredictable girl like Callie--in the middle of the highly predictable 1950's--an encounter to which he has no framework of comparison and from which he has no defenses. His reactions are always quiet and understated, even in big scenes, he's very internal and the pressure builds up. I look forward to Francis' future works.
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