![]() ![]() To the reader, she opens up about her tense family situation, with her politician parents so committed to their roles that they’ve begun stonewalling and sound-biting their children, and her sister rebelling and running off at every opportunity. It’s a neat trick and a brave one, letting a central character function less like a character and more like a black hole, letting everything revolve around her without giving her so much as a line of dialogue.Ĭate is hidden too, but only from the other characters. Everyone has a very definite opinion of her, which makes her a figure of almost mythic proportions by the time she does show up. We know her only through Cate’s memory and the rumors that swirl around her. ![]() ![]() We meet Violet once in the prologue, and then not again for more than a hundred pages. ![]()
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