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Ashamed, truly, that I am just now reading this!
Nikki gave me this book when we first met, several years ago at conference in Texas. She is a delightful person and I'm pleased to say that we've become friends! I think that was partially why I didn't read the book, though. What if that nice funny woman I met wrote a bad book? Also, in my defense, right after I got it we began to remodel our basement so that I could have an office, and this and many other books that would end up on my built in bo ...more
Nikki gave me this book when we first met, several years ago at conference in Texas. She is a delightful person and I'm pleased to say that we've become friends! I think that was partially why I didn't read the book, though. What if that nice funny woman I met wrote a bad book? Also, in my defense, right after I got it we began to remodel our basement so that I could have an office, and this and many other books that would end up on my built in bo ...more
It's easy to see why there's so much love for this book; for me it was less about the magical realism and more about the power of regret. The fact that the poverty and the potential abuse weren't the most important parts made it just a little bit more powerful a read - it's the power that adults have over children, and the choices children make because of that power imbalance, that is front-and-center. Basing the story on Anderson's "The Nightingale" may lead readers to go back to that story and
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Dec 16, 2013
Hannah
marked it as to-read
Dec 26, 2014
Lisa
marked it as to-read
