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SARA BERKELEY. New Island
(Dufour, dist.), $15.95 paper (288p) ISBN 1-902602-04-8
Hannah Newell, almost 20, is living in London, having left her father and two brothers back home in Dublin. She moves into a house with two girlfriends, Mo, an overweight, wisecracking lesbian bartender, and Julia, daughter of a rich doctor. Though Hannah's life looks normal, she harbors a dark secret, one that involves her 23-year-old brother, Rene, who writes Hannah a constant stream of letters. Worried that this torrent of mail will arouse her roommates' curiosity, Hannah gets a post office box. She's often lost in memories and fantasies of Rene, who addresses her as …