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I love outsider music, strange people and non fiction in general. Specifically, the novel was amazing. It was unflinching, beautiful, painful and ultimately, inspirational. I'm on the hunt for the rest of her work.

Bursting with promise and its intelligence, but lacking in the brilliant reveal. Many characters are superficial, much to the chagrin of this reader. An excellent debut and author to follow.

Perfection in short bursts. A wonderfully creative storyteller.

Incomplete, and realistically so. The uncertainties and unspoken reasons lent this novel the frustration we collectively feel in terms of crime and punishment and humanity. Daunting and serious. Well worth your time.

Funny and well aware of its own brilliance, much like the young adults featured. Clever, but not obnoxiously so, and oozing with collegiate knowledge acquired by life and lots of reading.

The cutting room floor is littered with embarrassing minutiae such as this. Painful, funny, and squirm making, this read has moments of heartbreaking beauty and disgust.

The brevity of this novel is necessary. Any longer and it would be overwhelming. The luminescence of these brief asides, musings, and presentations of the ineffability of Ono's work threatens to set your mind ablaze with the possibility of all unknowable worlds. Lisa Carver, an artist in her own right, presents her treatise from many sources, from the ubiquitous Youtube commenter to somewhat inexplicably, Scott Disick. The absurdity of mass media a prosaic mirror to the pronounced absurdity of Ono and her relentless assertion that peace is pretty powerful. Every biography should have such a writer. A writer who is funny, unflinching, esoteric, and affected as Carver with her wonderful usage of exclamation points. What an underused and wonderful method of punctuation, and yet so appropriate for this writer and this subject.