Bebe Faas Rice’s The Place at the Edge of the Earth

Rice, Bebe Faas.  The Place at the Edge of the Earth.  New York: Clarion, 2002.
This is a very earnest book, and very determined to be wise and moral and cathartic; but in spite of (or maybe even because of) that, I find it very distressing.  It is trying so hard to be having the right [...]