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Prompt 25: A book you were supposed to read in school but didn't
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Loosely based on the life of Margaret Mead, Euphoria is the story of a nonconventional woman living in conventional times who manages to rise above society's expectations and make a career and life for herself as an anthropologist, wife and mother. The New Guinea setting is almost a character in itself. Although my book group didn't love this book, we sure had a great discussion about it.
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Interesting novel, inspired by the author's readings about Margaret Mead, of anthropologists in the 30s, at the very beginning of the discipline. I found the first chapter quite horrific and had a hard time pushing through it, but then I became caught up in the story. It's short, but has a lot in observation and information woven in.
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