Last week I went to the bookstore downtown, hoping they'd have Kristin Hersh's Rat Girl. They did; in fact, it was up on the main wall, one of the "Staff Picks".
It's a very sweet book, well written. I'll get my one complaint out of the way first: I could've done without the "69 songs". They seemed redundant. Maybe that was just because I knew most of them. I don't know.
Anyway, the book was everything you could want in a story- sad, scary, funny, interesting, suspenseful. One of the funniest parts comes right in the middle of one of the most disturbing parts: the story about the witch.
I have a feeling that this book is going to find a large audience. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised at all if it were someday made into a movie.
Note: Outside of North America Rat Girl was published under its original title, Paradoxical Undressing.
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