![]() ![]() Hanna is a ref reshingly unbalanced protagonist-unafraid of gore or her own sexual power while also being terrified of any loss and unable to handle simple high-school power negotiations. ![]() The resulting novel is wonderfully baffling, and as lush, warm, and conflicted as Hanna herself. Reeves immediately establishes a mysterious, disorienting perspective by allowing Hanna (who hallucinates conversations with her father but, as far as the reader is permitted to know, can also conjure up a swan whose actions impact the actual world) to be the only narrative voice describing the town of Portero and Hanna's efforts to settle into it. Since Hanna has nowhere else to go, her mother agrees to let her stay, if she can prove that she can fit into this guarded, hostile town that considers outsiders merely fresh meat for monsters. ![]() What's more, the town itself has doors that open between worlds, often releasing evil forces onto the residents. It's hard enough for her to accept the death of her beloved father and to manage her escalating mental illness, but when she shows up in the hometown of her mother (whom she's never met), she discovers that her mother wants nothing to do with her. Poor Hanna has had a seriously rough adolescence. ![]()
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