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...earth. She watches as the shock waves of her death spread slow-motion havoc among her family and friends - her brave but vulnerable dad, her precocious younger sister, her bewildered classmates, the boy she had a crush on. She watches dispassionately as her killer - the fastidious, emotionally damaged Mr. Harvey - carefully disperses her body parts (the hunt for Mr. Harvey gives the book a fierce narrative energy). She watches her mother's slow, grieving slide into adultery with a dry-eyed pity that's heartbreaking. "My mother had my body as it would never become," she says, as her mother...
...Take your clothes off," Mr. Harvey said. "I want to check that you're still a virgin...
...Harvey," I said...
...talked so that I would not have to take in this knowledge: Mr. Harvey was no character. He made me feel skeevy and icky now that he was blocking the door...
...Harvey, I really have to get home...