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I loved the extensiveness of this book. The range of settings, from Greece/Turkey to Detroit to San Francisco, and - above all - the omniscient first-person narrator really made the book for me. I found myself thinking of The Tin Drum when he was describing his birth; I haven't read it in about 20 years, but I need to dig it up and re-read a bit of it to see if there are more than surface similarities in the narration.
One of the other reviews talks about Cal's hermaphrodism being a sensationali ...more
One of the other reviews talks about Cal's hermaphrodism being a sensationali ...more
May 22, 2008
Juliezs
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really liked it
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Great read, I love sweeping intergenerational stories like this one. The exploration of gender and culture and family are really well done and caused me to question some of my existing assumptions. The characters are great and the portrait of America changing over the years is very poignant.
I really enjoyed this book- it was very enlightening and I really felt for the main character. I didn't love the style of writing but I did enjoy it overall.
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This is like a book version of "Legends of the Fall."
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Sep 22, 2007
Donna
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really liked it
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fiction,
twisted-sisters
Feb 25, 2008
Melissa Wiebe
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liked it
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historical-fiction,
1001-books
Mar 27, 2009
Allie
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it was ok
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queer-stuff,
audience-adults,
fiction,
gender-stuff,
award-pulitzer,
problematic,
not-for-me
Jun 17, 2009
Emily
marked it as to-read
Jul 26, 2009
Melissa
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it was amazing
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Jun 29, 2010
Maria
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Jan 07, 2011
Erica
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Sarah
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