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Five Quarters of the Orange
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March 2, 2015
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March 15, 2015

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Sarah
Apr 20, 2010 rated it it was ok
I read this for a book club, so maybe I was more critical for that reason than I normally would have been. I had several problems with this book, but it wasn’t terrible. Mostly I was trouble with the fact that a lot of people in this book do pretty risky and outlandish acts and it was a stretch for me that so many people in a small town would do those things with very little provoking. A lot of things happen in this book and I don’t think that we have a good character study to make their actions ...more
Rae
Mar 27, 2008 rated it liked it
I rather enjoyed this story told from the point-of-view of a nine-year-old and a woman in her late 60s. The past and present become intertwined in this story of a dysfunctional family trying to survive a Nazi-occupied French village.
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