Lauren Aimee Curtis
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It's a bleak coming of age for the central character Dolores. That's not her real name, it's how the nuns re-name her when they take her into the convent.
She was sixteen, and with a mouth full of crooked teeth, when she tried to smile, she looked as though she were being pinched by small, hidden hands. So they named her well: it wasn't her name, but it's what she should have been called.
The convent is in Spain, and Dolores has made her way there from far away in an unnamed place where it is winter in June, to deal with a problem known only to her and to Angelo, the boyfriend that pimped her to his friends and abandoned her when the inevitable happened. The story alternates between her progress at the convent, where the nuns are hoping for new young nuns to take their places as they die off, and back to the months before her arrival when she was newly discovering her sensuality.
The prose is disconcertingly spare and unemotional, which makes it all the more powerful when Dolores finds that it's not only young men who want to exploit her.
Discipline in the convent is strict.
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