“The twelve verse-chapters function seamlessly to move readers in literal and emotional time, just as chapters in a prose novel do. Visually appealing, two, three, four, and five-line stanzas give the page plenty of white space. Bernard understands that a clean, inviting text will ease readers into the unfamiliar genre, and to that end, she employs asterisks to indicate temporal pauses and changes in point of view.”
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