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To me the title seemed to promise more than it delivered. Yet as a novel about growing up within a dysfunctional family it does work, with three family members inheriting some kind of disorder which allows them to feel people's feelings.
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A deeply satisfying, magical book.
A lovely,uplifting and also moving, heart-breaking book. How is that even possible? Deft characterizations, attention to details of childhood (that mainly only children notice) and a slow unfolding of a delicately wrought plot.
I highly recommend this if you even slightly enjoy magical realism.
I highly recommend this if you even slightly enjoy magical realism.
I had a really hard time getting into this book. I think it may have had to do with the lack of punctuation such as quotation marks and I just couldn't get into the plot. I wanted to, but it wasn't happening.
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