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Trash

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

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Trash is told from multiple perspectives. Would it have worked as well with a single narrator? Why or why not? 

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Why do you think Mulligan chooses an unnamed country as the setting for the novel? 

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Why does Rat abandon his nickname and begin to go by Jun-Jun again as the novel concludes?

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