Loved itThat's not a critique of it because I think that is the intention of the book and I think it was really well written. But yeah, it was just really sad.
Reasons She Goes To The Woods (2014)
Others: Overwhelmingly positive Pearl can be very, very good. More often she is very, very bad. But she's just a child, a mystery to all who know her. A little girl who has her own secret reasons for escaping to the nearby woods. What might those reasons be? And how can she feel so at home in the dark, sinister, sensual woods, a wonder of secrets and mystery? Told in vignettes across Pearl's childhood years, Reasons She Goes To The Woods is a nervy but lyrical novel about a normal girl growing up, doing the normal things little girls do.
- ISBN:
- 9781780743769
- Length:
- 249 pages
Genres: horror, literary fiction, young adult
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Loved it
Loved itthis is a novel told in vignettes about a very disturbed young girl and her life and the weight is interacting with other people her family her brothers and sort of this odd relationship she has with her father as well it's really disturbing but it's really innovatively told