![]() ![]() Here the characters and settings will be familiar to the author's fans: a glamorous would-be boyfriend with a profoundly sympathetic gay best friend impossibly hip restaurants and clubs a house converted from a legendary Hollywood hotel. The novel jumps ahead five years, when Barbie has a flourishing career as a model but is stunted emotionally and artistically (she wants to be a photographer but can't summon the creative energy). Maybe later on she was the sex."" In any event, Mab's friendship sustains Barbie after she is molested by a prominent photographer, a violation her mother aggravates by turning her head the other way. At about the same time that her ex-beauty queen mom pushes her into modeling, 11-year-old Barbie-named after the doll-meets Mab, an acid-tongued, winged beauty: ""a teenage girl-thing who was the size of most teenage girls' littlest fingers."" Block proposes different ways to understand Mab: ""Maybe Mab was real. ![]() ![]() This disarming new book by the ever-inventive Block (the Weetzie Bat books) seems at once more fantastic and more of a YA ""problem novel"" than her previous titles. ![]()
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