Laura Kasischke

The impossible choice

by Photograph by J. Adrian Wylie

posted 2/1/2002

I hate to do it, but I can't talk about Laura Kasischke's new novel, The Life before Her Eyes, without giving something important away — the beginning. Two young women, inseparable best friends, juniors in high school, stand in the girls' bathroom at their school while outside a young maniac goes on a shooting spree. When he comes into the bathroom, he offers them a

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