2014/41: Cuckoo Song -- Frances Hardinge

2014/41: Cuckoo Song -- Frances Hardinge

you woke up one day and found out that you couldn’t be the person you remembered being, the little girl everybody expected you to be. You just weren’t her any more, and there was nothing you could do about it. So your family decided you were a monster and turned on you…. let me tell you – from one monster to another – that just because somebody tells you you’re a monster, it doesn’t mean you are. [loc. 3769]

( non-spoilery review )