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“You can’t save what you don’t love,” reads the declarative sentence that opens the novel.

To which Leda replies, blending frankness, sorrow and fury as only Colman brilliantly can, with a simple declarative sentence:

“You know, God figured out how to give the rules to all mankind in 10 declarative sentences,” Gates said this week.

“There is a satisfying spark to her short, declarative sentences,” Katherine Hill writes in her review.

In his left he holds a hand-painted sign etched with four words, one declarative sentence: “I did not forget.”