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270 pp.
| Dutton |
January, 2017 |
TradeISBN 978-0-399-18673-8$17.99
(2)
YA
Rumors of a curse on the Devonairre Street Girls circulate in Haydu's alternate-2008 Brooklyn. When a series of tragedies convinces the street's inhabitants that the Curse is real, narrator Lorna and her mother resist their neighbors' increasingly cultish mentality, building to a devastating conclusion. Magical realism and a parallel-world setting enhance this wrenching novel's lyricism--and make the pain somewhat more bearable.
Reviewer: Katie Bircher
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
March, 2017