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    <body><![CDATA[After reading Towelhead and completing this collection of short stories, Alicia Erian is fast becoming my new favorite writer. Her writing style and the themes she tackles are very similar to my own writing, except my stories are usually from a gay POV.<br/><br/>When I read a short story collectio...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43737289">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[After Kite Runner......all the hoopla of writing about tragic coming of age stories.  Now I wish to read Alicia Erian's &quot;The Brutal Language of Love: Stories...&quot;<br/><br/>Jasira is who &quot;Towelhead,&quot; (another of Alicia Erian's books) the book-into-movie is about &amp; what is the sto...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45455377">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[i was pretty into this book for a minute, but eventually the characters seemed indistinguishable to me &amp; i got bored.      ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I decided to read this after finishing Erian's other book, &quot;Towelhead.&quot; This is a collection of short stories, a little different, but still has the author's distinct voice. I enjoyed this book, it went quickly and kept my interest. I look forward to reading more of this writer's work.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was a fun, quick read, but completely forgettable.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Loved every page!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[bunch of stories, very similar especially at the beginning of &quot;towelhead&quot;, it was ok. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Her first book. Graduated from CUNY, MFA from a school in Vermont, lives with her husband in Brooklyn. I'm sorry, but that is a type of writer, right?<br/>Nice short stories filled with disassociated women, often selling themselves short, in negative relationships doing damage to themselves and tho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3038456">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Alicia Erians stories are dark and sexy, full of pain and lust and the kind of relationships we're all secretly sorrow to be aware of. I loved her novel Towelhead, and have been reading her stories on <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://Nerve.com">Nerve.com</a> forever, her heroins are filled with passion and despair but are never without hope. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[alicia erian, along with dave eggers, is one of my favorite, most beloved young contemporary writers. her style is simple, essentially, but frequently i found my mouth had dropped open a little in... awe? stupefaction? resonation?<br/><br/>something like that.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Good collection of short stories, well written for the most part, but a bit uneven in some places, some stories were much more enjoyable than others.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My favorite stories include the title story, &quot;Alcatraz,&quot; and &quot;Almonds and Cherries.&quot;]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Somehow expected more from it. Good ideas but after a while it got some kind of boring.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>Quick read. Easy language. Fun and light with unique characters.]]></body>
    
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