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Title: thought provoking
Review: Styron's story is both confident and questioning as it probes the meaning of love that has been purchased and the inherent race and class dynamics that influence these understandings. The primary narrator, Addy, is flawed and perhaps on shaky emotional ground, but she is still on a quest to find some peace in her life after a difficult childhood with inattentive and quarrelsome parents. The debate, however, is whether her quest is one that is too selfish in nature to be taken as a hero(ine)'s journey. Regardless, several of the characters do emotionally travel to a new place as a result of her choice to attend her former nanny's funeral. All the Finest Girls is not apt to rely on staid stereotypes and the author gives enough information to absorb the reader without dictating the interpretation too heavy-handedly.
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