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The Marked Girl By Lindsey Klingele On Sale: Aug9.99 Now: 7.99 Spend 49 on print products and get FREE shipping at HC.com Format: Qty: ADD TO CART about Product Details reviews Worlds collide in Lindsey Klingele’s young adult novel The Marked Girl, an exciting fantasy tale turned upside down. I'm passionate about storytelling in all forms, and I know a good story when I see one-and how to make it better if it's not quite working yet. ![]() I'm a writer, editor, and storyteller with over 10 years of professional experience in the publishing industry. ![]() ![]() ![]() Not only do Lily's dresses express her inward self when she is wearing them, but they also tell the story of her past they encapsulate the entire person of Lily Bart. In Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth, as Lily Bart lays her dresses reflectively across her bed, she notices, like Madame Merle, that "an association lurked in every fold: each fall of lace and gleam of embroidery was like a letter in the record of her past" (295). Isabel's retort is perhaps an unexpected one in light of the tradition in nineteenth-century fiction of clothing serving as an outward sign of a character's internal "selfhood." Madame Merle herself subscribes to this traditional idea, admitting "I know that a large part of myself is in the dresses I choose to wear" (181). In this epigraph from Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady, Isabel Archer argues with Madame Merle about whether or not clothing expresses the wearer. My clothes may express the dressmaker, but they don't express me.-Henry James, Portrait of a Lady (183) ![]() ![]() ![]() By sticking close to them, and filming through the victim’s own smoke-fogged eyes, Jenkins makes their perspective paramount. The same murder that white revelers voluntarily consume as a twisted form of entertainment constitutes a trauma for Black witnesses who have no choice but to look. Look deeper, though, and the harrowing scene reveals itself an incisive response to pop culture that fetishizes Black people’s pain without acknowledging the psychological impact of such depictions. This could be yet another graphic reenactment of Black suffering under slavery, crafted by well-meaning Hollywood types as a reminder-to an implied audience of similarly well-meaning white people with unfeasibly poor memories-of historical racism. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Full of the breathtaking drama and unforgettable emotions for which James Patterson is famous, 1st to Die is the start of a blazingly fast-paced and sensationally entertaining series of crime thrillers. Working together, they track down the most terrifying and unexpected killer they have ever encountered-before a shocking conclusion in which everything they knew turns out to be devastatingly wrong. The four women develop intense bonds as they pursue a killer whose crimes have stunned an entire city. So these women form a Women's Murder Club to collaborate outside the box and pursue the case by sidestepping their bosses and giving each other a hand. But the usual procedures aren't bringing them any closer to stopping the killings. Each one holds a piece of the puzzle: Lindsay Boxer is a homicide inspector in the San Francisco Police Department, Claire Washburn is a medical examiner, Jill Bernhardt is an assistant D.A., and Cindy Thomas just started working the crime desk of the San Francisco Chronicle. Four women-four friends-share a determination to stop a killer who has been stalking newlyweds in San Francisco. ![]() |