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LibraryThing Early Reviewers. Mixed feelings. Maggie dreams of a city that her parents deny ever existed, but she is drawn to paint it at every opportunity. She is trapped by her unhappiness with her life and relationship with her body (wheelchair) and as her dreams become more real she is driven to pursue them.
From a narrative point of view I felt this was just getting interesting when the novel ended; it felt like the set up of a much larger story and not a story in itself. I do appreciate seeing a disabled character with a normal sex life - by which I mean taking just as many opportunities to be weird and screw things up as everyone else - but I was uncomfortable with how her disability resolved at the end of the story.
I would not seek out more of her writing based on this.
From a narrative point of view I felt this was just getting interesting when the novel ended; it felt like the set up of a much larger story and not a story in itself. I do appreciate seeing a disabled character with a normal sex life - by which I mean taking just as many opportunities to be weird and screw things up as everyone else - but I was uncomfortable with how her disability resolved at the end of the story.
I would not seek out more of her writing based on this.
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