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    <body><![CDATA[I feel bad. I certainly do not have the street cred to *not* love this book by a gay, politically oppressed Nigerian. And I have to say that at least I was able to finish this one -- unlike Graceland, which I have checked out and returned about a million times. I just... I just don't want to hear th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80057243">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Los Angeles, California. Black is a busy man.  By day he collects racist and sexist jokes from toilets for his mural (one from Buckingham Palace via Sharon Osborne), while being stalked by Archangel Gabriel, and obsessing over transvestite stripper, Sweet Girl.  By night he stands atop his spaceship...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70255693">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[You should read this book if you enjoy hearing other people bitch and moan about how hard their lives are in a painful fashion that lacks wit and clever design. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Its a strange novel. There is no hero. How can Black be a hero in the traditional sense. The whole novel is not traditional except mainly in form. <br/><br/>Black, uber-confused. He doesn’t think he is gay. And his history. He is a messed person, because of his past and his family. He has no struc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27124198">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fans of Middlesex will surely like The Virgin of Flames.  The synopsis (a street artist who's obsessed with a transexual) had me unsure that it would be my kind of book, despite having loved Abani's last book, Graceland.  Abani picks up where he left off with the strange eroticism that his last char...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25357459">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A violent and visceral take on the abstract experience of being multi-racial in the United States. Abani physicalizes what can often be a very nebulous and ephemeral existence, and stabs onto the page the confusion, the shape-shifting, and liminal consciousness of mixed race identities. Set in the C...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75095025">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[screw this book, if i read one more story about a &quot;tragic&quot; person with &quot;abuse, race and gender issues&quot; i am going to start ripping out pages.<br/>why do authors insist on burning up the best parts of us multigendered into their wierd ass fantasies and dramas.<br/>i am no longer...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20541646">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[chilling, hilarious and tragic. all the more incredible after seeing C.Abani read last Friday night in the District of Columbia. weaves together gender, race, catholicism, child abuse, black outs, and the Blackmobile (a yellow VW bus) into some stellar depictions of Los Angeles.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[There are two ways for me to think about The Virgin of Flames. A.) it is a typical (and overdone) coming of age novel from a liberal UC professor focused on gender, sexuality and ethnicity. Or, B.) it's a probing study of East and Downtown LA from a global citizen who is at once native and guest of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22345098">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book surprised me. It was heartbreaking and sad; yet, there were spots of humor and joy. Abani wrote with amazing poetry. His descriptions of Los Angeles were specific and colorful. His characters were honest and triumphant, even as they were shameful and violent.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, I've renewed it twice and I'm starting to owe money on it, so for now this will be one of those books that I hope to finish someday. Interesting and edgy concepts yet the language didn't grab me. The content ranges from sensual to horrible but the prose is a bit lackluster.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A good book with an intriguing character. However, being from Los Angeles, there were some details that made the story suspect for me (fireflies in LA? brushfires and rain occuring at the same time?). Maybe it was over my head and I was not invested enough in the fantastic imagery.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Haunting and ethereal.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is astoundingly beautiful and devastating. It is dark and funny and really gets at the confusion of cities, gender, masculinity, and child hood. It is also irreverent and experimental. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[why don't other people like this book as much as i did? it made me want to read again. if nothing else, it's a beautiful story about downtown LA, the LA river, and the ashes in the air fromt the fires. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[great story about a man coming to terms with his sexuality with the wonderful, scary and amazing city of Los Angeles as the background. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[still reading....enjoying Chris Abani....I loved Graceland and decided to read this one.....different yet still that same approachable style....<br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I so wanted to love this, but it doesn't hold up or sustain interest...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting book, but predictable.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[looking forward to this read!]]></body>
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