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- Wendy Perkins
Perkins is a professor of American and English literature and film. In this essay, she examines the tensions between integration and displacement in the novel.
- James Wood
In the following review, Wood praises Eu-genides's talent at "conjuring" an adult voice, with all its language and resource, that is simultaneously that of a child's "excited, receptive, and bolting response to the world."
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