![]() ![]() ![]() And perhaps the slings and arrows of our outrageous relation to each other can be quantified. In italics, adopting a heavily ironic and implausibly literary voice, she addresses her sleeping father as she prepares to shoot him: ""It is an age of computers, my father. Now, in an assortment of alternating narrative voices, she tells her story. Motherless teenager Carla has been abused, sexually and otherwise, by her father for years-since she was five. Though first-novelist Morris is identified as a psychologist who ""has worked extensively with child-abuse victims,"" this effortful, artsy evocation of an incest victim's tormented psyche is too elaborate and melodramatic to be plainly convincing. ![]()
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