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An incredible, mesmerizing story that was both difficult to read and impossible to stop reading. While I agree with some reviewers who thought the characters were not fully developed, there's also a case to be made that in the face of such constant, overwhelming violence and oppression, survival takes precedence over everything else. I saw this in Cora: whenever she thinks it might be possible to relax her vigilance and allow herself to live a 'normal' life, something happens to remind her that
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Update 4/10/17: today it won the Pulitzer for Fiction:
http://bookriot.com/2017/04/10/colson...
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This novel dominated the "Best of 2016" lists:
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http://bookriot.com/2017/04/10/colson...
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This novel dominated the "Best of 2016" lists:
http://qz.com/869960/the-best-books-o... ...more
Believe the hype, folks. It's the real deal.
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