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    <![CDATA[The Period of Usefulness]]>
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    <![CDATA[When Dee realizes her introverted personality has isolated her from society, she rejectes becoming a cat lady and makes a conscious decision to reintegrate into the outside world. Though her relationships begin as a forced exercise in extroversion, Dee proves a plucky companion and adversary for a cast of memorable characters. Their candid behavior and the narrator's pithy commentary hilariously reveal the complexity of even the most mundane interactions. A sympathetic heroine expresses uncanny dialog while meeting absurd circumstances and a deranged, twist-style ending. Light-hearted delivery, down-to-earth sensibility, and the narrator's infectious morbid curiosity make &quot;The Period of Usefulness&quot; a finely-crafted, yet unpretentious, tale worth reading at least twice.]]>
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        <name><![CDATA[Caitlin Conley]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[I know you're thinking this cover is pretty boring. Let me assure you that the story inside is not. A female lead and an irreverent tone sometimes make The Period of Usefulness read like chick lit, but you'd be wrong to dismiss it as a fluffy love story. The heroine is more complex than your average...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65544623">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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