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More  observational  than  confessional, Spaniel Rage is filled with frank and immediate pencil drawn accounts of dating woes, misunderstandings  between  her  and  her mother, and conversations with friends. Her keen observation of careless words spoken  casually  is  refreshingly  honest, yet  never  condemning.  Unabashedly, Davis offers up gently self-deprecating anecdotes  about  her  anxieties  and  wry truths about the contradictions of life in the big city. 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