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    <body><![CDATA[I recently have read several books that I found depressing and this one certainly fits into that category. It, again, has me pondering if a good book is a book that you *enjoy* reading or if a good book is one that is capable of allowing you to experience the extreme emotions of the characters.  In ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6124503">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hegi writes another emotionally compelling story about families and relationships. When 41 year old Julia finds herself pregnant and unmarried she decides to confront the emotional issues from her childhood regarding her parents divorce and her father's subsequent decline into alcoholism and abuse. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40116554">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The salt dance of the title refers to a family tradition that walking over a line of salt will mean leaving cares behind. The novel clarifies that this is not so simply possible, but it also indicates that a new beginning is possible.<br/>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved Hegi's Stones By The River, but I wonder if I've now been &quot;spoiled&quot; by my MFA turning into a more discriminating reader.  Or maybe she just wrote a thudder on this one.  Bits of it were lovely, but mostly it lacked tension, had slack dialogue, and was ultimately a character study, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64640325">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A daughter tries to resolve her difficult childhood before she gives birth to her own daughter.  Covers sad and disturbing topics such as parental desertion, physical abuse and the internal dichotomy of loving and hating parents.  A sad and emotionally challenging book.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Salt Dancers is the story of a woman coming to terms with her own history as an abused child before she gives birth to a child she never planned to have.  Like most of Hegi's books, the novel is intensely emotional, and deals with questions of childhood, family, abandonment, loss, friendship . . .  ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6772638">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is Hegi's second novel and, though it received less acclaim than her debut, I found it quite good.  It's the story of Julia, a recently divorced and unexpectedly pregnant woman who returns to her childhood home and is forced to confront memories of abuse and abandonment.  Her relationships...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17344795">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a really abstract book and got me thinking a lot. It was so interesting and hard to put down. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book and all the emotions it evoked as well as her beautiful images.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had a hard time staying interested in this one.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Small book from a big writer.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't know what to say in this review.  I'm very ambivalent towards this book.  It started out slowly and I didn't think I would bother finishing it, but then sections got much better and more interesting, but even as I was drawn into it, I just didn't care much.  I finished with a feeling of &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17088021">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mixed response. At first didn't like it too much, as it's a common theme and didn't strike me as new or different. But, all in all, the treatment of the characters was well done and raise some interesting points and different perspectives. Definitely liked Stones from the River a LOT more.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A woman's tale of return to the past.  Disturbing, yet so well written that I felt compelled to read on.  One of the few books of this type which did not make me think of Oprah.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a quick read and it's well written but not a light-hearted summer read.  What would I do if I were 40, divorced and found myself pregnant?  I ask myself that all the time.   ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Contemporary lit: 1990s Spokane, WA --- Coming to terms with childhood drama.  Totally different than Stones from the River - written well, but subject overall depressing.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 22 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hegi has written a powerful book about adult survivors of abusive families. I especially appreciated the portrayal of the sibling relationship and themes of swimming and water.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[interesting, sad as daugther tries to figure out if she really wants to know and meet a  mother that left her with an abusive father as a child.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[How can <em>Stones From the River</em> be one of my all-time favorites and everything else Ursula Hegi has written... not so much?]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't really remember much about this book except that after I finished it I said, &quot;Meh! This is for girls!&quot;]]></body>
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