The nature of this book, the main bulk of the story seemingly written by someone of Frank’s behalf, explains the faster, less detailed and more blunt telling of emotions and behaviour. Whilst I think this serves its purpose of shrouding wartime experiences in mystery, isolating people from one another, it is less evocative than some of Morrison’s other work. Still, it remains poignant and beautiful in the way all of her writing is, answering not only to the present but how it was arrived at b

You young and a woman and there’s serious limitation in both, but you a person too. Don’t let Lenore or some trifling boyfriend and certainly no devil doctor decide who you are. That’s slavery. Somewhere inside you is that free person I’m talking about. Locate her and tell her to do some good in the world.