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Originally Posted by astrangerhere
But my point is that she had an out. She was able to grab her typewriter and just land in a new, magical place where it all worked itself out.
Jack being roughed up and taken in by police was the most realistic thing to me, and even that didn't sit well. There was little acknowledgment of the horror that would most certainly have been inflicted on her by male guards when she was sentenced to 6 months. It seemed to be a scene for the sake of itself that did not give it the seriousness it deserved, but rather served to make Emily homeless and in need of Haskel's apartment.
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Just about everything in the book seemed to skate along on the surface; I never felt an emotional connection to the characters. The abuse Haskel suffered from her mother and her husband didn't resonate for me. Nothing did.