Mariana

I read it a while back but just didn't get down to writing about it. It made a pleasant, insightful read, another coming-of-age work that stood part from the rest by its sheer compassion and ordinariness. How interesting can a middle-of-the-road life be? Quite, in a quiet sort of way. It's about wrong choices, and growing with, through them, not into a super-human heroine, but into a good-enough person. It's about coming to terms with reality, about realising that imagination is a double-edged sword. Didn't quite like the way the ending was constructed though. Too abrupt, and suddenly lacking the sensitivity that marked the entire book.