This goes right along with the damaged-girl genre I was in last month with My Happy Life and Other People: A Mystery Story. Not as interesting to read, and somehow less plausible-feeling, though I can't put my finger on why, exactly. The main character is a nineteen-year-old, somehow tapped to teach math to second-graders in the local school. She's super-weird, and it's not clear whether she's mentally ill or just loopy. Her students are unconvincingly weird, too, and precocious beyond my belief. Everyone in the story seems kind of insane, frankly, and as a result, there was no baseline to measure their actions by.
But, I got the book for a dollar at a thrift shop so that I could leave it behind on our recent trip to Washington state, and I did just that. If you're ever in the Yakima Oxford Suites, you may find it in the dining room on a shelf with a bunch of scientific encyclopedias. If you have nothing to read, have at it, but I'd save it as a last resort.
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