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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a fictionalized work about the SLA and Wendy Yoshimura's life. The author's research about the 1970s--its events and both mainstream and radical ideologies--was impeccable, giving great insight into the era. Choi does a great job in developing Jenny's character. I also walked away from ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28767088">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book has an incredibly interesting premise - a fictionalized account of Patty Hearst's life as a fugitive, told through the perspective of a fellow radical/ activist Wendy Yoshimura (called Jenny Shimura in the Book) - but there are some serious problems in the execution of the story. Several p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27484172">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Historical fiction usually conjures up visions of sweaty English monarchs, or heaving soldiers reclaiming an embankment in some centuries-old war.  But in American Woman, the author expertly recreates the &quot;the patty hearst story&quot; as &quot;the jenny shimada&quot; story.  (That is, the story...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27980075">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the type of book I typically avoid, but before I had a chance to run I was drawn in by this engrossing account of one fugitive trying to help three more people continue their evasion of the police. I was not far into the book (okay, chapter two) when I realized I was in a fictional account o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66094877">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Late in the novel, the central character ('60s radical &amp; fugitive Jenny Shimada) imagines her way into the thoughts of a person affected by the SLA-analogue cadre of fugitives she's caretaking.  She imagines Mr. Morton, in the middle of their fundraising robbery, turning in his glasses toward &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64195156">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed it very much, and was interested to note the wide variety of ratings 1-5 stars.  I got it because I specifically wanted to know more about the Patty Hearst story.  Can anyone weigh in on this -- how closely does this book follow the true events?  I was very surprised to see that it is all ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39234774">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Based (not loosely)on Wendy Masako Yoshimura and her involvement with the SLA and Patty Hearst.  This is another engaging, yet quick read by Choi.  I have a soft spot that hurts a little when touched, when it comes to her Asian American characters.  She writes about their experiences in a very subtl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68058987">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was assigned to read this for a class, which means that I was basically guaranteed to hate it. (I have a bad history with required reading - see <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=Summer of My German Soldier" title="Summer of My German Soldier">Summer of My German Soldier</a> and <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=The Old Man and the Sea" title="The Old Man and the Sea">The Old Man and the Sea</a>)<br/>The story focuses on Jenny Shimada, who is based on a real Japanese-American woman who work...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21579754">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's not very often that I pick up a book and actually read it based solely on the back cover description.  It almost always takes a recommendation from someone I know or overwhelming praise to bring new authors to light.  This book is one that I picked up back at Barnes and Noble years ago in the a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21260804">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is, in essence, a fictionalized account of Patty Hearst's life after being kidnapped and becoming a revolutionary.  At a time when people are not outraged and radical in their dissent of our country's many problems and injustices, I found myself reading this book and wishing we had more li...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23399194">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this-- the lush physical descriptions and the myriad ways in which the characters (outlaws on the run) show that they're nervous have much to teach writers like me whose characters tend to do the same token movements all the time. Also, it's interesting to read a book set in the 70s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58840597">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Super interesting story telling the perspective of freedom fighters. Good moral: don't get so involved in one fight of principles that you give up all your other principles. The ending fell flat for me, and the book dragged a lot (very repetitive). But took me someplace I never would have gone other...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79800348">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[solid, well written, well paced. kept picturing this as a movie, like in scenes where it could shade towards sarcasm with the idealism of some of the characters, or not, not sure if that's a good thing- like it's not in the text, not sure if its intentional. read this b/c whitney know her and we mig...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48701535">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[How to parse a moment, a memory, a personality: Susan Choi's characters feel fully alive to the reader because of the details of their environment, understandings the reader inhabits of why/how the characters act, and because of the ways that Choi's wonderful prose breathes on the page. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This novel was loosely based on the Patty Hearst and Symbionese Liberation Army sagas.  The characters were well developed and  background material provided details of what motivated their actions and helped to direct their destiny.  But, for such a violent tale, it was curiously unveventful for lon...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68069687">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[For those of you who remember Patty Hearst, this book is for you. Choi has done excellent research into this case, fictionalized, and created a tension-filled page-turner.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Weird but readable.  I was never sure if this retelling of the Patty Hearst story was based on facts or not, but I certainly consider myself an expert on that extravaganza now!]]></body>
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