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After her only friend deserts her, Olive Garnaut stumbles upon Pip, a mirror image of herself who does everything Olive is afraid to do--which includes tracking down the father who abandoned her. Kane creates a strange and magical world for her characters and fearlessly launches them into it amidst intensely poetic prose ("The house fell poison-still").