Young girl creates a ‘Land of Decoration’
Apr 13, 2012
The Land of DecorationBy Grace McCleen (Henry Holt)According to her website, author Grace McCleen grew up in a fundamentalist Christian household in Britain. Encouraged by teachers on a path she had not set her sights on, a university education, she attended Oxford, only to lose her faith and fragile sense of self. Judging by her semiautobiographical first novel, “The Land of Decoration,” she has been saved by writing, if not restored to salvation.The book’s title comes from the Book of Ezekiel,
