I read this book years ago but still remember it with tremendous pleasure. It's a lovely, haunting novel that lets you plunge into the life of a lost girl who become a dangerous adolescent. Some of the sentences left me so happy that I'd read them over to myself like secret magical spells. It's true that the book isn't long on plot, as the Kirkus (Snarkus) Review pointed out. But if you're a reader compelled more to find out the real truths of life rather than to jolt through another pageturner, this book might give you the same pleasure it did on me.