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5.0 out of 5 stars
A Good and Smart Novel,
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This review is from: A Bad and Stupid Girl (Michigan Literary Fiction Awards) (Hardcover)
I've read all of Jean McGarry's novels and story collections and this one ranks at the top. The assured, sometimes whimsical but always well-controlled style is here, but there's something about the characters Siri and Esther: they are ingratiating young women who grow on you as they themselves grow. In fact, Ms. McGarry's story works as a double bildungsroman, a chronicle of the intellectual growth spurt that can invigorate one's early college years. Although Ms. McGarry is an esteemed professor there is nothing of the usual academic musk: the college is too odd, the story too focused on underclasswomen's mental life to rehase the fixations of the conventional college novel. What starts as a variant on The Odd Couple evolves into a type of quest with both girls breaking free from their roots and trading intellectual places. Dare we ask for a sequel?
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A Bad and Stupid Girl (Michigan Literary Fiction Awards) by Jean McGarry (Hardcover - October 2, 2006)
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