"The Burning Girl" By Claire Messud. W.W. Norton & Co., 2017. 256 pages. $25.95Children are ill-equipped for the perils they encounter, not to mention those they gleefully pursue. Thus the enduring draw of the coming-of-age novel, where tension spreads like a fog over everything. When that fog lifts our gift may be some small bit of clarity, insight or relief.Claire Messud, in her new coming-of-age novel, "The Burning Girl," writes her story, set on Boston's North Shore, with a light [...]
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