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Title: Healing the hollowed parts
Review: This breathtaking novel maps a few weeks in the life of Amy who returns to her small hometown to consider her relationship with her girlfriend. She encounters two of her childhood friends, Gina (who now works in a lesbian bar) and Gavin (who is dangerously anorexic), and together the three collide into and reconcile past pain and experiences. Banding with Gina to help Gavin, Amy rekindles her attraction to Gina. Sifting through the ebb and flow of memory, she also comes to understand more about her continuing self-mutilation. Echoing aspects of Eric Swanson's "The Boy in the Lake", Green gives us a beautiful novel exploring the invisible and visible scars we all inflict on ourselves and others. My favorite line from the novel: "The hollows of the body were what filled up with hurt, and you couldn't starve them away."
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