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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2599523.The_Boat?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="The Boat" border="0" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41bg2WoeNxL._SL160_.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2599523.The_Boat?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">The Boat</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1147765.Nam_Le">Nam Le</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26139132?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 5 of 5 stars<br/>The Boat is a breathtaking & heartbreaking work of literary genius. Each of Nam Le's stories are a world so completely real & realized that they feel like a living, breathing being. His understanding of human emotions know no boundaries of age, race, country or gender & is only overshadowed by the beauty & mastery of Le's writing. For those who do not read short stories, please do not let that stop you from picking up this book; each story is a novel in itself. The intensity of character & place is so visceral & immediate that you would never know that there is not a continuous narrative from one story to the next. If that is not enough to persuade you then I will say the narrative is held together by history & tragedy, by beauty & perseverance & could be a novel is its own right. Read this book, you will thank me for it later. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/243683?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>