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Psychologically astute and easy to get absorbed in, this Booker-shortlisted debut from Emily Fridlund is unexpected and unconventional as a coming of age story. Narrated by a teenage girl living in the remnants of a failed commune on the edge of a lake, she inhabits a matter of fact kind of solitude. The plot unfolds as she befriends a young family who have moved in next door and through her perspective, the book explores loneliness, trust, male power and parenting as indoctrination.
