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Drowning instinct5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() The framing conceit (Jenna dictates her story to a detective who has given her a digital recorder) is distancing. ![]() The one exception, a refreshingly normal classmate and potential boyfriend, is soon left behind. Jenna’s voice is edgily authentic, but other characters seem to consist entirely of symptoms-case studies in uncontrolled violence, rape, self-mutilation, victim-grooming and sexual and substance abuse. Isolated, with a domineering, plastic-surgeon dad and alcoholic, bookstore-owner mom, Jenna’s increasingly smitten with Mitch, who goes out of his way to advocate for her and invite her into his life. Today she copes with stress by e-mailing her beloved brother, a Marine in Iraq, and by self-mutilation, which recently earned her a stint in a hospital psychiatric ward. Years earlier, Jenna was maimed in a house fire. Bearing scars both literal and figurative, Jenna Lord, 16, falls for Mitch Anderson, the married chemistry teacher who helps her survive a rocky start at a Wisconsin science magnet school. ![]()
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