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I read this for one of my reading groups; otherwise I might not have known it existed. Rabih Alameddine was a new author for me. In "An Unnecessary Woman," he writes convincingly in the voice of a 72-year old Beiruti woman, she of the title. I found myself identifying on so many levels with this central character who is so different from me, yet the same in many ways. Some of my group mates found the numerous literary allusions distracting; I found them to be an enhancement of the text and in ke
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Jul 21, 2015
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