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Moeyaert, Bart

It's Love We Don't Understand

127 pp. | Front | June, 2002 | Trade ISBN 1-886910-71-5 $$15.95
(4) YA Translated by Wanda Boeke. As this novel, translated from the Dutch, opens, the narrator's brother hits their mother's boyfriend with the family car; the reason--the man has been abusing him--isn't divulged until the book's second quarter. The enduringly confusing story line is unfortunate, as Moeyaert's sympathetic narrator has a clear, distinctive voice. Readers who hang in there get to know her dysfunctional family, which exists in a social and cultural vacuum.
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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