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    <body><![CDATA[Picked it up off a sidewalk in Brooklyn and started it, but couldn't get into it.  It felt like a shaky, transitional book in an otherwise solid writer's repertoire.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[i loved blue angel, and this book is about a haitian woman, so i am interested to read a book by an author i like, about my haitian roots that i am trying to learn more about.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Maybe this is 2 1/2 stars - I didn't dislike it, but I never got into the story or the characters.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the rare books I gave up on. Sold my copy on Amazon for a buck.]]></body>
    
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