As the title suggests, HERmione is about a young woman divided against herself (Her and Hermione Gart are the same person) and against a certain perception of the world. Although this is the autobiographical narrative of a future poet, the handling of these divisions is unlike anything you will encounter in other portraits of young artists. An intensely personal narrative voice demands that you follow her on her terms and in her language only. The voice confides her universe of desire, drawn with emblems of a troubled, idealized beauty…. The voice is "overwrought" … and the symbolism extravagant, even a little too self-consciously Jungian. Hermione is engaged in a war with precise, sane, emotionally expurgated language, the language of her father, a science professor, and of her brother, a biologist of sorts. Her Gart retreats from the aloof, instrumental world of her father even while convinced that her retreat...