![]() How did it come? For a minute the opening balanced from one side to the other. Mick raised her head and her fist went up to her throat. She only halfway listened because she wanted to walk some more and she didn’t care much what they played. The announcer said they were going to play his third symphony. When he was living he spoke in a foreign language and lived in a foreign place-like she wanted to do. She had read in the library about that musician-his name was pronounced with an a and spelled with double e. After a while a new announcer started talking. She smoked and picked a little bunch of grass blades. One program came on after another, and all of them were punk. One night she experiences an epiphany, one which spoke to my soul: ![]() She walks through town at night, sneaking into the yard of a rich couple to hide in the shrubbery and listen to their radio, as her family cannot afford one. ![]() There are several fascinating characters in the novel, but the one which captured my heart was Mick Kelly, a young teenage girl in an impoverished family. ![]()
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