![]() ![]() Mainly, though, Shelby focuses on enacting her own penance for being physically and cognitively intact (the jury’s out on emotionally): by shaving her head, sleeping like Dracula in her parents’ basement, skipping college, and sometimes cutting herself in places she thinks won’t be detected. ![]() This cringeworthy spectacle sometimes causes Shelby to ponder whether it's better or worse that her friend lived. Two years have passed since the car accident that left Helene tethered to a feeding tube in her childhood bedroom just before she should have graduated from high school, a mute but lovely shadow of her former badass self, a magnet for pilgrims hoping to be cured by touching her hand. In her own mind, Shelby Richmond stole her best friend’s future. ![]() Hoffman takes a break from writing about distant places and the distant past ( Marriage of Opposites, 2015, etc.) to explore the psyche of a young Long Island woman afflicted by survivor guilt. ![]()
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