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  <default-description>&lt;div&gt;One man follows his wife, who is following another man. Earlier, that first man follows a bird out the window. Later, he doesn't follow a dolphin into the ocean. The earth quakes, lives are threatened, and a dolphin swims free. With deadpan humor and skewed wordplay, Deb Olin Unferth weaves a mystery of hope and heartbreak.&lt;/div&gt;</default-description>
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  <date_added>Fri Apr 11 10:04:36 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh stunning, my goodness, what a wonderful, devastating book. I was bewildered and despondent for an entire evening after finishing this (for the second time in a row -- just one of the benefits of being a copyeditor). Much like the previous McSweeney's I did, at a certain point (this one is clearly...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19939722">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is typeset, designed and manufactured with wonderful skill and attention to detail. The paper's so soft you could use it to upgrade your baby's bottom. Holding the book in your hands feels luxurious; reading from it is a privilege.<br/><br/>In comparison, the novel itself was just okay. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33796752">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reading this was something of a vacation, indeed. Not the in-Florida-with-the-family-on-the 4th of July-type vacation, but more of a literal vacating.  Of my usual, comfortable space.  Of the traditional narrative retreat I usually seek. Of the conventional, the simple, the everyday. The intro inclu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34207902">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Nov 03 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oriana recommended this book to me, saying &quot;You think you know what kind of book you're reading, and then it keeps changing into something completely different than you expected.&quot; And she's exactly right. I read much of this book on an airplane and while traveling (I figured it was appropr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36075156">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Through this labryinthian narrative moves Myers, a young corporate cog who chases after the man he believes his wife has been following on an errand of her own heart. Myers's journey leads him to Syracuse and then to Nicaragua, where he endures and earthquake, loses his job, and winds up on a boat i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66147159">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Apr 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Dearest friends -- someone please read this book so I have someone to discuss it with me! Wow.<br/><br/>I really like Deb Olin Unferth's writing -- I find her pace and tone and style is kind of like the way I think (perhaps this is disturbing, because this book is kind of disturbing).<br/><br/>I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51501950">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book began with such promise. The sentences! Not surprised that Unferth acknowledges Gary Lutz and Diane Williams in the back of the book--she, like they, know well how to give birth to sentences that require re-reading and re-savoring, sentences that are new to the world, never before seen. Un...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42080804">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 15 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first half of Deb Olin Unferth's debut novel, &quot;Vacation,&quot; is largely devoted to the dissolution of a marriage between a man named Myers and his nameless wife. Myers' wife begins to spend her evenings following a man named Gray through a somewhat sinister cityscape. Myers follows close ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58369282">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Apr 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I finished this book last week but waited a bit to see what my reaction would be. Like an exotic tea, you have to give books like this time to steep, a moment to cool off before really seeing what it tastes like. Also like exotic teas, it is very easy to get caught up in the packaging - this book, l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53308490">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[We're such big fans of Unferth here at PANK, we're probably creepy. You must read this book. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I swear I wrote a review for this at the time.  Oddball, inevitably tragic (and after finally reading Martin Eden last year, too), and the sort of thing that I accept as well-done but probably just wasn't in the mood for.  Though it strikes me now as the sort of thing Wes Anderson lovers would enjoy...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40369426">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Misunderstanding, marital discord, manic searching, natural disaster -- all woven into a bleak story with a very small amount of final redemption. A big departure from the 'gentler' fiction I usually read, but turned out to be a thought-provoking change of pace.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!!! deb! my heart! you have broken it! and yet i am curiously detached from and accepting of my own suffering, having a renewed appreciation for its place on the scale of suffering worldwide. so i resent you for what you have done to me, but my resentment is overshadowed by my gra...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69121997">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Nov 12 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[You could say it's the story of a man who discovers that his wife has been following another man around New York City, and then tries to track that man down and winds up lost in Central America. Or you could say it's the story of a woman who catches a fleeting glimpse that first man on a train in th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38528991">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This novel really grew on me.  It is completely cold and alienating to start, but one warms to the story (if not the characters) even as it grows more and more surreal or improbable.  One thing that piqued my interest from the beginning, though, was the fact that this book disses the city of Syracus...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76536718">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this quite a bit. I had read one of her short stories in Harpers last month, and I really like her style. It's different, and I think a bit in vogue with a certain crowd, but she does it really really well. The story is strange (but not nearly as strange as the jacket cover suggested), fun...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67276148">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Some really good sentences:<br/><br/>&quot;The moral grid of steel spired up the side&quot; (34). <br/><br/>&quot;Or she could be searching for a way to tell him, she could be looking for a brink to be on, or an edge to be off. She could be feeling too prominent, like the most prominent object i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57501955">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This novel has everything I love: existential concerns over identity (presented through a relationship), travel (to Central America no less) and a playful consideration of the relationship between language and being.  The writing is often lovely and now and then astonishing, but, at times, it become...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43001264">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon May 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've been with this book now for a long time out of sheer love of it. Every chapter is chopped up into little pieces, and every piece is almost like it's own little story, like Unferth dropped a tiny explorative device into the brain-body of one of her characters for a moment, so the piece is for a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48251204">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm surprised at how much I liked this book; at first I felt like it had a serious case of MFA-itis, and I'd get to the end feeling like I'd wasted my time and gone nowhere, but it's actually a page-turner that I couldn't put down.  Yeah, the dialog is a little stilted and lacks quotation marks, it'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34319661">more...</a>]]></body>
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