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While i did finish the book, there was never a point where the story took off and truly became interesting. Dec 12, 2014 still, as a coming of age film, white bird in a blizzard is a success at depicting kat as a real teenage girl, hovering in that confusing stage of adolescence where she is neither fully grown up but is certainly not a child. Having lived for so long in an emotionally repressed household, she barely registers her mothers absence and certainly doesnt blame her doormat of a father, brock, for the loss. Kat connors shailene woodley is 17 years old when her perfect homemaker mother, eve ev.
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