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A review by asurges
Pretty Is by Maggie Mitchell
5.0
Loved this story within a story within a story. This isn't about a kidnapping. This is about what happens when only one person in the world can possibly understand a life-changing experience that occurred when you were both at an impressionable age.
Maggie Mitchell's ability to capture voice is particularly impressive, and I like how she took on a story that has a dramatic appeal but chooses to look at the deeper issues: what does it mean when the person you both defined your lives by is dead? What does beauty mean? What does being a girl/woman mean? And why does Mitchell make the ending a seeming ripped-from-the-headlines type of ending? It's funny and smart.
Maggie Mitchell's ability to capture voice is particularly impressive, and I like how she took on a story that has a dramatic appeal but chooses to look at the deeper issues: what does it mean when the person you both defined your lives by is dead? What does beauty mean? What does being a girl/woman mean? And why does Mitchell make the ending a seeming ripped-from-the-headlines type of ending? It's funny and smart.