I sometimes show up to my book club without my homework: I’ve decided I only have time for books worth every moment spent on them. From the first page of Eggshells, I knew it was worth its word count in gold. Although Vivian Lawlor is mysterious, a strangeling, the backstory is not the point of this book. Nor is the outcome. Vivian does have an objective: to find a portal to the Other World where she might belong better. It’s just that, like her job-seeking, her portal-hunting is a part-time occupation. Conversely, her Attention Surplus Disorder focuses her with knockout concentration on what escapes most of us most of the time : language especially– the things we so vacantly say, the words...
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