![]() ![]() ![]() Namey dunks us into Darcy’s mother’s compulsive mindset for just long enough to impart the claustrophobia Darcy’s had to endure. They’d been on sale last week at a huge markdown, so naturally, she had to buy them. Dry dog food? A bag must’ve ripped open, one of maybe five stacked against the wall. ![]() I smelled something new since this morning when I left for school. Throat-itching dust I could never clean fast enough. “Every day since my seventh birthday, that first shock of reality followed me into my apartment…The smells struck hard-cardboard and plastic, the tangy rubber of new sneakers. She has to learn to make herself able to love without shame.Ĭontrasted with the sunny San Diego setting and the tittering banter she shares with her bestie, Darcy Wells ekes-out a tense existence in the shadow of her mother’s addiction to material objects: ![]() This relatable, well-paced novel offers up the story of a young woman forced to revise her core relationships and re-write herself from a reclusive caretaker of her hoarder mother to sentient actor in her own life. With allusions to canonical romantic texts like Much Ado About Nothing and Pride and Prejudice and homages to more recent YA successes like John Green’s Looking for Alaska (Dutton Juvenile, 2005) and Nicola Yoon’s Everything, Everything(Delacorte Books, 2015) there’s much to be found in Laura Taylor Namey’s debut, Library of Lost Things (2019). ![]()
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