![]() ![]() How I disagree now with my (slightly) younger self! Though Smith is a scenic and subtle writer whose story breathes on the page, and is deeply embedded in her teenage life, there’s no pretense that a high school girl wrote this. I wrote, “There isn’t much authorial distance: narrated by a bereft girl, with scant mature perspective, the story has a poignant immediacy.” At the time of my review, one of the story’s most striking aspects to me was its scenic quality. ![]() I reviewed it four years ago, and this semester I’m teaching it to a class of honors freshmen students under a coming-of-age memoirs theme. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve read Name All the Animals, by Alison Smith, one of my favorite memoirs. The retrospective view, in life as in Alison Smith’s great memoir ![]()
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