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An affecting novel with an oddball & unique narrator. Helen Moran is 32, living in New York and working as a counselor for troubled youth, wearing clothes she finds discarded on the street. Korean born, she hasn't seen her white, Midwestern adopted parents in five years. Helen is weird, troubled, isolated, and under investigation at her job for her unorthodox ways of helping the troubled youth, involving marijuana and 24 hour cell phone availability. When she gets a phone call that her adopted b
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The atmosphere is incredible and immediate. Helen reminded me a lot of the protagonist of The Driver's Seat - another novel in which something is clearly off, but you can't quite get a bead on it. I loved this. I borrowed it from the library but will likely purchase my own copy. I can't wait to tell someone to use the waterfall coping strategy.
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