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Article: `TRAVELING LIGHT' COULD HAVE LESSENED ITS LOAD.(Editorial)(Review)
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- The Capital Times
- Article date:
- August 11, 2000
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By the time you turn the final page of Katrina Kittle's novel ``Traveling Light,'' you will be emotionally exhausted.
You will have become closely connected to the life of Summer Zwolenick and her brother Todd, who is dying of AIDS. You will have surrendered yourself to this story, letting phones go unanswered and priorities fall by the wayside as you rush toward its end.
But the novel's surging emotion is not always backed up by elegant writing, and that's the problem with ``Traveling Light.'' This story isn't strongly supported by the prose it deserves.
And yet ``Traveling Light'' spins the reader into an emotional frenzy that -- in spite of ...