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Title: Marvelous writing!
Review: What a wonderful novel! Here is a fresh and exciting voice in coming-of-age fiction. Harper's earthy and sensual descriptions of landscape and memory make her story sing; reading about the Minnesota lakes made me yearn to plan a trip there. All of the characters are interesting and memorable, but the main character, Nellie, is the perfect travel companion. This novel about an American woman's journey takes the reader on a magical tour of adolescence and the development of consciousness. Nellie is seeking nothing less than her own soul. Her desire to be an adult, a person with autonomy and spirit, is clear from the very first chapter, but her discoveries along the way, including some vividly detailed encounters with memorable characters, make this a reader's dream as well. I was sorry when the novel ended. Let's hope Harper writes a sequel! Or anything else!
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