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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of a handful of books that I always buy used in order to give away to people. What I liked best about it (as well as her &quot;Consider this, Senora&quot;) as the poetic prose. Not too heavy, not too light. Not too flowery, not too sparse. Just right. Musical in a sense, but not obviousl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29062038">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I struggled with the rating for this book, because it probably deserves 5 stars.  However, I as the reader had a little difficulty putting everything together so that the lower rating more likely represents a deficiency on my part instead of a commentary on the book itself.<br/><br/>Nevertheless, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40592762">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I first read this book many years ago, and recently came back to it. The story is about an American couple who move to a small Mexican village to reopen a copper mine, originally started by the husband's grandfather. I won't give away the main theme of the book, but I loved how this story explores r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46261722">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I actually thought about how much I love this author when I picked the name Harriet for our daughter.  Very  nice voice in her writing.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/><br/>It is the story of a 40 year old couple who move to Mexico to open a defunct copper-silver mine that had been mined 50 years previously.  The story is of the people in the small village of Ibarra as told through the eyes of Sara Everton.  Her husband, Richard, has been diagnosed with som...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31615731">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a wonderful, gentle book. A couple, Sara and Richard, leave the US to leave full time in a small Mexican Village that does not even have phone service. They move into the once elegant villa owned by Richard's grandfather and plan to run an old mine. We learn in the first chapter that Richard...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11676119">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a short, beautifully written tale of two Americans who move from San Francisco to a small village in Mexico called Ibarra.  <br/><br/>As short and lovely as it is (214 pages) it took me FOREVER to get through because of my ambivalence toward the main character.  She struck me as a bit spac...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10732038">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book in my early twenties and loved it. The writing is filled with light, both real and figurative. She successfully evokes the heat, landscape, and people of Mexico and also illuminates the complications of relationships, especially the difficulty of learning to live in another culture ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47758797">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What I liked about this story of a cross-cultural experience was the absence of that familiar voice in the background saying, see how much we (whites, Westerners, whatever) can learn from these simple people?  And what I also liked was the author's depiction of everyday life in a small village in Me...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79159771">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This story occurs in a place I would not want to be around people who would most likely make me feel uncomfortable and is about a situation I would dislike to experience.  So, while it is well-written, it is a poor match for my tastes.  I would recommend it to people who have visited Mexico or who w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79643701">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read a loooong time ago, but still remember as very moving.  To head off, excited and ready for a new adventure -- to follow a dream-- but then to have it all crash around you.  It broke my heart but built it up again with the courage Richard and Harriet showed.<br/><br/>This novel, Harriet Doerr'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50846326">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this book. I didn't love it. I didn't hate it.<br/><br/>It was a good book to pick up and put down as needed. Each chapter is basically a short story in and of itself, with the main characters making appearances in each with an over-arching storyline of their own. <br/><br/>I don't know,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33227562">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not alone in loving this book as it won the National Book Award.<br/><br/>Basically, it is about a North American middle aged couple who move from California to a small town in Mexico to reopen a Mine that they had inherited. Harriet Doerr is an incredible writer. Here is one small example:<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20285669">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This novel about an American couple who come to a small and very remote Mexican village to find the mine that was left to the husband by his father is exquisitely written, moving at the same pace and with the same world view as the people who have always lived there. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book.  It is set in a small village in Mexico and the main characters are 2 North Americans who move there to run an old family mine.  The emotional journey taken by the couple, especially the wife, is fascinating to watch, as she admits the beauty of the place while denying so...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29150151">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book. I'm not sure why. It was simple, yet meaningful to me. Perhaps because it was written as a first book by a 65 year old woman who took a writing class. It gave me hope. It was a well-written story with an unusual plot and setting. I've read it several times, which is rare for me.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43422447">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Harriet is a amazing--her style, poetic.  Sometimes I get to trapped in the details, but for the most part, I would take this on a train with me and be happy it was the only book I brought.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The title is so touching once you reach the end of the novel.  I loved these characters.  As with many great writers, the land itself is one of the most vivid characters.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Impressive first novel by an older woman. A North American family moves into Mexico resisting the South American customs. They persist in not being religions. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A man moves his family from California to Mexico to re-open a mine that has been in his family for years. He dies, and his widow is left to fend for herself.]]></body>
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