An advice columnist does appear: an elderly woman who unknowingly lives near the house where the girls are kept. But she’s in the novel for only 25 or so pages; she’s a marginal character at best. Image Carolyn Ferrell, whose new novel is “Dear Miss Metropolitan.” Credit... Matt LicariThe girls’ names are Fern, Gwin and Jesenia. “Dear Miss Metropolitan” is not entirely about their degradation. Ferrell charts the girls’ friendship, and the small ways they work to find bearable aspects to an unbearable experience.

Source: New York Times July 05, 2021 17:37 UTC