![]() ![]() ![]() You didn't have to ascend off the island like some magazine model you didn't have to push yourself through veering, crowded, exotic streets. ''Watching her run, I thought, Down is somewhere. ''You could just tell that she knew the Secret, that she'd done all kinds of things and never been defeated or ruined.'' Justine's skirt is ripped, and Sara watches the tear widen as Justine suddenly bolts away down the street. One night in a Chinese restaurant, she encounters Justine, a young petty thief with a toothbrush hanging from a chain around her neck. I thought, Fine, disappear before my eyes.''īut of course it's not really ''fine'' with Sara, who wants answers. Erase this, she seemed to be saying, erase, erase, erase. ![]() Sara tries to comfort Heather, who brushes it off, despite her new limp. Sara's awakening begins when she learns that her friends, ''the burnout boys,'' have gang-raped her classmate Heather. When provoked, Sara has a tormented desire to corkscrew someone. She's a naïve teenager (and a Canadian), so it's only a Swiss Army knife. Sara is afflicted with an overwhelming sense of compassion. This genetic combination produced a girl who is half Holden Caulfield, half Emily the Strange. ![]() Her mother belongs to a free-love cult somewhere in California. Her father is a pot-growing anti-logging crusader. ''I was born with a fever, but it seemed to subside for 16 years,'' says Sara Shaw, the narrator of Rebecca Godfrey's first novel, ''The Torn Skirt.'' Sara is 16, lives on Victoria Island in British Columbia and longs to escape. ![]()
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