![]() ![]() Its universe alternately shrinks and expands, in a comfortingly perpetual portrait of this singular estate - even as it acknowledges the inevitability of impersonal, urban living. This stylistic device or way of ordering the collection is what gives the fictional neighbourhood its nostalgic, timeless quality. The narrator sometimes sounds like a schoolgirl struggling with the complexities of friendship in the next story, she possesses the worldliness of a grown woman looking back on her childhood. Time in these stories does not move in a linear fashion. ![]() ![]() As a result, curious things are told with that mix of misplaced wonder and naive acceptance peculiar to children.Ī dark detail, such as a child-corrupting mass murderer in the townfolk's midst, is relayed matter-of-factly, glossed over by the messed-up priorities of the kooky inhabitants. ![]()
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