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    <body><![CDATA[Disappointed with this novel, especially after having read The Gathering by Enright.  <br/><br/>One lovely passage about grieving while and through dreaming...dreaming while and through grieving... waking up to realize you have been grieving a loss you hadn't realized still profoundly affected you...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50877489">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Has Grace had a breakdown? Why? Who or what is Stephen? Just some of the many questions this book invites readers to ask without ever answering....<br/><br/>Yet despite a lack of answers this book is more enticing than frustrating as the reader gets to know Grace/Grainne who works on a TV show in ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4464462">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was good but very strange. I am not sure I get it yet.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this book after I read The Gathering by the same author.  This book is in the magical realism realm (an angel is one of the characters) but it's also earthy and gutsy as well.  An interesting read.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[All I can say is Blech!!!  Really abstract and modernist-feeling, a la Gertrude Stein or something.]]></body>
    
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