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    <body><![CDATA[I was a little disappointed with this book.  The writing was excellent but the back cover gave the impression that it was a ghost story. It was but not in the general sense.  I was hoping to read something that would literally scare me.  It was a story of haunted people.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Lovely story that takes place in Ann Arbor, Michigan.  Exploration of race, class, love, family, and loss, all revolving around this house and what it means to a variety of people.  The author also happens to be a professor at the UW Milwaukee!  ]]></body>
    
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