Box Girl

I had Box Girl from the library for two weeks before starting to read. The cover was a huge turnoff, feeling childish and unimaginative. When I at last started I couldn't put it down, finishing in two nights. Gwen and the kids in her life are interesting and complex. Every night she builds a box of postcards her 5 year absent mother has sent her, chanting a spell to get her to where her mother is. All the time pushing her father, his partner, and everyone else who tries to get close away, waiting for the day she gets the call. . . .