A review by trevorjameszaple
Ugly Girls by Lindsay Hunter

3.0

An interesting debut. The southern, ill-educated drawl that punctuates the speech of Ms. Hunter's poverty-line characters seeps into the prose at times, making for an interesting blur between story and author. The title is apt, since all of these characters are steeped in their own ugliness, although Baby Girl's ugliness seems to me to be mostly surface ugliness. Baby Girl was the character that resonated the most with me; as the others fell into their own ugliness, she seemed to transcend her own and grow as a person, to a point. While it was a very assured, confident voice for a debut, the ending seemed all too abrupt for the emotional weight that was put on the characters and it ultimately left me unsatisfied.