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Michael's review of Pieces of a Boy
4/5: There is a distance between the emotional expression and the experience lived that reads here as claustrophobic, and is one in which our diarist Mr. Morris seems to be searching to address, or at the very least, expose, as one might when asking for help finding a lost object. To be so vulnerable as to share what the lost item was in order to be able to ask for help in its recovery is the predicament of our author. Here the object might be a sense of place, belonging, and self-understanding either through obsessive drugs taking, furtive and numerous random encounters, reacquaintance with a s...