![]() ![]() I recognized this as a narrative technique which in a less talented hand would seem cheap. Much of the reason I kept reading in the slow-going first part of this book was because I wanted to know why the 13-yr-old left her privileged life in suburban Miami to become a street kid, or one of the "beach kids". ![]() I am usually not one to emphasize story over writing style, but the elegant, polished narrations of mood, weather, tropical urban ambiance, even the author's delicate, precise, baroque, completely mouth-watering descriptions of food and pastry could not overcome some serious flaws in the story. I am giving this book a "4" overall, because even with its faults, bottom line I thought the story (a "3") was only about 70% well-conceived but the writing was polished, lyrical and nuanced, and for the most part I enjoyed reading this. ![]()
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