***This review contains plot spoilers***
When Carrie was younger, she invented a secret language of whistling to call the goldfish that lived in her backyard-pond. Now in eighth grade, Carrie starts blacking out, having dizzy spells, and fixating on the fish/pond. To me, it was clear from the start that she was having these problems because she did not want to grow up, but the narrator does not reveal this, and Carrie does not discover this, until about the second-to-last chapter. I am not sure if this was intentional. Perhaps it was just an issue I had with Carrie's perspective, but I also had some problems with some of the unnecessary attention and descriptions about the overweight-ness of a girl who is mean to Carrie.
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