The concept of this book is so great: a writer trying to piece together a young artist's life and tragic death through a series of interviews with everyone who knew her. The result is a book of transcripts, media clippings, photographs, and paintings that feels almost like a case file. The images are vibrant, the paintings gripping, but the problem was pretty much every voice and every article didn't sound real. I was never convinced that if these people were real that they would actually speak and think the way the author presented them. So many of the characters felt like caricatures that I could never get lost in the narrative.