What is innovative is how perfectly the book captures its time and place. This is a double-edged sword, of course, because the book has the potential to become dated. What makes it real now could make it unreal in a year or two's time.
Near the opening of the book, Sugar notes:
When your closest friend is a ghost, the thought of facing the living world is dreadful.
Sugar's journey back into the living world is well-told if not revolutionary. If you like coming of age stories, A Girl Like Sugar is worth a look.
This book review originally appeared on Fourth-Rate Reader.
ed/pub:NB
Page 1 — Page 2
Article comments
1 - Temple Stark
One of your fellow Blogcritics writers pointed your way as a pick of the 11-19/11-25 week. Click HERE to find out why.
Cheers. Temple