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It was a little frustrating and slow for me. I felt the author did a great job of re-creating, in a surrealistic way, the confusion and disorientation and lose of identity that a person feels in entering a totally new culture. But sometimes the conversations seemed to go on quite a long time. I think it is the kind of book that person will come back to after thinking about it for a while and read more carefully. It's a slow, meditative kind of read.
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