Property of

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Summary: beautiful 1st novel
Review: Whenever I am disillusioned by books I turn to Alice Hoffman to get me back on track. This book, Property Of, is no exception. I first read it as a teenager, half my life ago, and it still is as powerful now as it was then.

It's a story of a lonely girl who wants the Leader of the local gang to be hers. She wins him and all his problems, becomes his conscience, and through the bad times, his only friend.

When she tries to take him away from his gang and turf she begins to realise that she will never have him on this own, the way she wants him. He will always be part of the scene she is ready to escape. Powerful, insightful stuff on how relationships can wither until you can't recognise them anymore.