![]() ![]() But the monster is too strong, and before she knows it, Kristina is back in its grips. Now with a baby to care for, she's determined to be the one deciding when and how much, the one calling the shots. But in the end, readers will be amazed at how quickly they work their way through this thick book-and by how much they learn about crystal meth and the toll it takes, both on addicts and their families. Read online books at Title / Author / Series Glass Kristina thinks she can control it. She again experiments with form, sometimes writing two parallel poems that can be read together or separately (sometimes these experiments seem a bit cloying, as in “Santa Is Coming,” a concrete poem in the shape of a Christmas tree). The author expertly relays both plot points and drug facts through verse, painting Kristina’s self-narrated self-destruction through clean verses (“My face is hollow-/cheeked, spiced with sores”). Cash and carry”) and eventually even robs her mother’s house with her equally addicted boyfriend. She gets kicked out of her house after her baby gets hurt on her watch, starts dealing for the Mexican Mafia (“No problem. maybe 90 percent pure,” Kristina quickly loses control again. Getting/ out of this deep well/ of monotony I’m/ slowly drowning in.” When her former connection turns her on to “glass”: “Mexican meth, as/ good as it comes. ![]() Kristina now lives in her mother’s Reno home with her baby, but constantly dreams of “getting/ high. Hopkins’s hard-hitting free-verse novel, a sequel, picks up where Crankleft off. ![]()
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