INTERMEDIATE FICTION
(4) 4-6 Despite mounting evidence, Dill refuses to believe that her dog, Dead End, is the culprit farmers seek after finding their livestock attacked. Still pained by her mother's recent death, Dill keeps pretending that everything is fine. Set in rural Virginia, the story both pulls and pushes away readers' sympathies by focusing on Dill's sometimes poignant, sometimes frustratingly naive, denial of the truth.

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