Check out the review in Newsweek.
"Is there a point beyond which a fiction writer is merely punishing his or her readers? We pay lip service to the idea that we learn from novels and stories, that they have life lessons to teach us. Some do, but most of the time, the bargain we strike with fiction is much humbler: is the payoff worth the pain? Is what we take from a story or novel commensurate with or, if we're lucky, greater than what it takes out of us? Moore delivers a lot in this hard-knocks coming-of-age novel. But making the acquaintance of the unforgettable Tassie is such an exhausting, punishing experience that you finish the book wondering if it was worth the trouble."
Doesn't it make you want to give her another try?
How about this from the Chronicle?
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