the owl and the olive tree

I found Sarah Littman's Purge made an interesting companion to Wintergirls. I read them pretty close together--Purge wears its messages closer to the surface (and comes closer to being a problem novel, perhaps), but is also funnier and lighter--and so created a sort of useful balance/tension release for me after reading Wintergirls.

I was struck by how very different these books are, and how different readers might need one or the other.