The Literate Kitty

Look, we’ve all been there. Something major— life-shifting, even (a breakup or divorce, a death, losing a job, etc.)—suddenly happens, out of the blue, and just like that we’re smack-dab-in-the-middle of a fight-or-flight response… and we choose flight.   [If you haven’t ever been there, consider yourself lucky. Or not. I mean, how do you ever grow, or really find out what you’re made of— underneath that carefully-managed facade you show to the world —unless you experience some sort of monumental shift (which is usually some sort of trauma)?] Author Melissa Larsen takes her protagonist on just such a journey in Shutter .  __________ Betty Roux is that timeless, could-hail-from-anywhere kind of young woman: somewhere in her early 20s, still trying to find herself, and her response to her father’s suicide? Unceremoniously dumping her longish-term boyfriend, then spontaneously catching a flight from northern California to New York City (a place she’s never been), to… well, she has