Short prose vignettes in various shades of surrealism. In one, McLaughlin beautifully works Everywoman's coming-of-age depths and derangements out of the following passage from a Natural History article on a contemporary religious sect: "Young Hutterite girls often create a secret world confined to a locked chest. Here are found bits of the temporal world... cosmetics... and suntan lotion."--Bob Grumman
This review originally appeared in TapRoot Reviews #5,
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