Milk Teeth

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HOW MANY LAVENDER SUNSETS< BURNT CITRUS CLOUDS< AVOCADO BRUISED SEAS AND VIOLET SKIES MUST WE ENDURE? A girl grows up in the north-east of England amid scarcity, fearing her own desires and feeling undeserving of love. A tide of sharply sensuous detail keeps the reader riveted as the book flows by in a series of candidly recounted episodes sustained by voice rather than plot.

much of andrews' skill lies in her ability to subvert our expectations and challenge us with devastatingly sharp, sporadic sentences laden with rich, lyrical images, metaphors and motifs that immediately disarm us emotionally. I am so impressed that I want to read everything Andrews has ever written - I have Saltwater downloaded as an audiobook, and it's now bumped up the priority list.However, sentences get shorter, more restrained, when they describe her denial: ‘you reach out your hand.

I personally find this kind of writing style incredibly clumsy, ugly and embarrassing, but I am sure this will appeal to many people. irritating pages of fretting over “wanting too much while afraid of not wanting”;afraid of not asking for what you want; afraid of verbalizing , then internally verbalizing everything …. Who was almost too caught up in her own head (which I guess is a byproduct of the fact that it’s written in first person -duh Dylan! I want you to know how integral it has been to the way I move through the world, how I learned to push shame and anger deep into by body and yet speaking about it brings it into the present, when all I want is to leave it behind.We meet her late into this process, as she grapples with it during the development of a new relationship.