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I haven't read anything by Lasky since I weeded Shadows in the Water from my childhood collection, and Chasing Orion was nothing like what I expected. I rarely encounter books that are haunting--poetic, yet unsettling, and that's what this is. A meditation on the specter of polio in the US in the 1950s through the eyes of a most unusual young narrator.
PopSugar Reading Challenge 2018: a book by an author with the same first or last name as you