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FEELING a little blue about Valentine's Day? The one you love doesn't love you? Or perhaps you haven't yet found the one you love.
Assisting them is their 16-year-old "minion" Abby Normal, whose diaries of life with the undead provide the book's most vivid voice. Abby is an alienated yet perky Goth, a big-city, American cousin of Nomi Nickel, the yearning, tart-tongued teen heroine of Miriam Toews' A Complicated Kindness.Abby writes, "Even as I sit here at the Metreon Starbucks, writing this, the froth slaves seem to move like silver-eyed zombies and my non-fat, soy Amaretto Mochaccino has gone as bitter as snake bile. (Which is like the bitterest bile you can get.)"See the full content of this document
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Feeling Blue? Try a Love Story with Some Real Bite
You Suck
A Love StoryBy Christopher MooreHarperCollins, 328 pages, $28Reviewed by Duncan McMonagle FEELING a little blue about Valentine's Day? The ...See the full content of this document
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