RaveThe Guardian (UK)Keegan\'s lyrical novella was originally a New Yorker short story, but it has gained greatly from this expansion: the narrative breathes along with the child slowly detaching from her cramped, impoverished home and starting to unfurl, leaf-like, in an atmosphere of attentiveness. This is a story about liminal spaces: about having \'room, and time to think\', about the shifting lines between secrecy and shame, and a child\'s burgeoning apprehension of the gap between what must be explicit and what need merely be implied.