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I really enjoyed The Red Tent and I was looking for a similar book, something that takes a woman barely mentioned in a famous, historical piece of literature and tells her story. Lavinia is the second wife of Aeneas, briefly mentioned in the Aeneid, and when I saw that LeGuin was the author, I thought I'd really hit the jackpot. At first I was disappointed. This book lacks the immediacy of TRT, it's written as an elderly woman remembering her youth, and the protagonist is aware of her place in l
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