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2.5-ish stars
Take one part Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient, add a touch of Pat Barker's The Ghost Road and a whole lot of Margaret Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa centered on several fictional New Guinea tribes and one has a glimpse of this fascinating book detailing the early years of anthropological studies. King covers so many bases in this book's modest 257 pages that it takes a two page acknowledgments and five page, 23-question study guide and bibliography in the end to revisit one's self and valu
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4.5 rounding up - I learned after I finished that this book is fiction based on Margaret Mead, the famous (infamous?) early female pioneer in anthropology. Lily King has taken a real event from Mead’s biography - an encounter in the field between her and her second husband and a third anthropologist destined to become her third husband. Then King takes the story and runs with it, creating a world so descriptive of the lives of these anthropologists embedded in New Guinea tribes (fictional) that
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This was a book for my book club. I would have never picked a book about anothropologists but I really enjoyed this. There is a part where they discuss if you love a person like bread or wine that I thought was insightful. Love seemed to be the bottom line of all of it and that is always a good message.
Dec 03, 2014
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