Globe and Mail reviews Lemon

By Donna Bailey Nurse
Globe and Mail
November 11 2009

'Lemon has a bad feeling about the planet and a bad attitude to match ... In [The Catcher in the Rye], Holden Caulfield, the alienated teenage hero, prevents children from falling into bleak and frightening adulthood. Lemon might be seen as a contemporary, female version of the Holden figure. The novels share many details of plot and theme, including the spectre of death ... this novel might be described as a long, agonizing howl against humanity – a soundtrack for Edvard Munch's painting The Scream, except that here and there some humour seeps through ... there's a good deal of cheeky wit.' – Donna Bailey Nurse, Globe and Mail

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