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Faithful book by alice hoffman5/19/2023 ![]() Mainly, though, Shelby focuses on enacting her own penance for being physically and cognitively intact (the jury’s out on emotionally): by shaving her head, sleeping like Dracula in her parents’ basement, skipping college, and sometimes cutting herself in places she thinks won’t be detected. This cringeworthy spectacle sometimes causes Shelby to ponder whether it's better or worse that her friend lived. ![]() Two years have passed since the car accident that left Helene tethered to a feeding tube in her childhood bedroom just before she should have graduated from high school, a mute but lovely shadow of her former badass self, a magnet for pilgrims hoping to be cured by touching her hand. ![]() ![]() In her own mind, Shelby Richmond stole her best friend’s future. Hoffman takes a break from writing about distant places and the distant past ( Marriage of Opposites, 2015, etc.) to explore the psyche of a young Long Island woman afflicted by survivor guilt. ![]()
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