It's a fascinating look at someone disintegrating with little clues along the way. Claudine's mom has disappeared and she's handling things by organizing her empty home - cleaning, vacuuming, but there's that reddish spot near the door. She starts using post-it notes with reminders of what she has to do, but gradually this A+ student starts remembering to clean but not about the big test on Monday.
Spoiler alert. Don't read any further in case you want to read this book.
Of course I wish I was published, but none-the-less as a writer, I have to critique two things.
1. The teachers that don't notice her raw red hands, her dirty clothes, etc. Must suspend disbelief and plow on.
2. No way she could be at her mother's funeral after being in the shape she eventually was in. I'm not sure that denial of that magnitude goes away in two weeks.....
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