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Title: Paging Joan Didion...
Review: My rating is based on the intrinsic literary merits of the book, not the moral stature of the author. (Just for the record: I would have an easier time respecting this as "an act of courage" if the author hadn't inched her way up to it through several earlier fictions, as if she were performing a striptease, and let no one equate the victimization of a defenseless child with the legally - and, one would hope, ethically - responsible actions of a 20 year old woman.) It's written in stark prose that aspires to the taut suggestiveness of Joan Didion or (more likely, given Harrison's penchant for glamour) Marguerite Duras but is more often merely flat and affectless. This may be an after-effect of surviving incest but this isn't a diary we're reading, it's purportedly "literature", and it must be judged accordingly.
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