PERFECT READER by Maggie Pouncey

June 16th, 2010 admin

Book Quote: “The poems, my father’s poems,” Flora said. She wanted to make Cynthia see her way of looking. “They’re so personal. If there was a reading, or some other public forum, they could make everyone close to him feel…exposed. I don’t know, maybe it would be different or easier if they were paintings. Something other than poems.” Book Review: Review by Kirstin Merrihew (JUN 16, 2010) Any literary aspirant who is thinking of naming a child of their own as a literary executor might think twice after seeing how one daughter plans to treat her father’s legacy in Perfect Reader: A Novel . Flora Dempsey, who is in her ripe twenties, is more interested in using her deceased father’…

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