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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY REVIEW
Thirty years ago, Cassandra Neary's grim photos
of punks and corpses briefly made her the toast of the downtown
art scene. Now an alcoholic wage slave, Neary accepts a magazine
assignment to interview one of her reclusive photographer heroes
on a Maine island, where a rash of missing-teenager cases and an
off-kilter populace grab her attention. It takes time to warm to
the self-destructive, sour-tempered protagonist --she drives drunk,
pops Adderall and Percocet, and generally tries to not stick out
her neck. Luckily, Hand's terse but transporting prose keeps the
reader turning pages until Neary's gritty charm does, finally, shine
through.
--Sean Howe
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