PositiveThe Kansas City StarTherein is the weapon — dark, biting, occasionally uncomfortable humor — that Gurba wields repeatedly in the book, heading off any descent into despair. She doesn’t shy from the horror of the attack on her in 1996 and the one on Torres a few months later. But she isn’t cowed by it. And she won’t be identified by it ... Gurba writes in bursts of short sentences and tosses in pithy asides...lending further punch to Mean. A certain meanness, if you will.
