Dolores av Lauren Aimee Curtis

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<p><font><b><i>Dolores</i></b><b> is a glowing, beating heart of a book; Curtis'' sentences manage to be both mysterious and precise, creating a potent atmosphere that resonates beyond its brevity</b> -- Megan Hunter, author of THE END WE START FROM </font><br><br><font><b><i>Dolores </i></b><b>reads the way a first novel should: short, lyrical, intense, and with adventurous ambition</b> -- Nell Zink, author of THE WALLCREEPER and MISLAID </font><br><br><font><b>Rich, melodic and marked by a troubling sensuality, <i>Dolores </i>depicts the strange pleasures a young girl might take in her body, and the perils and liberations such pleasures hold</b> -- Sue Rainsford, author of FOLLOW ME TO GROUND </font><br><br> On a hot day in late June, a young girl kneels outside a convent, then falls on her face. When the nuns take her in, they name her Dolores.<br>Dolores adjusts to the rhythm of her new life - to the nuns with wild hairs curling from their chins, the s