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Cross culture literature has the ability to inspire with the prospect of something new or unusual that highlights universal aspects of human nature. Unfortunately, for me, this collection of short stories seemed to amplify cultural grievances that failed to resonate with me, so they fell a little bit short of inspiring. I had just the opposite response when reading Dear Life: Stories by Alice Munro, but even though Munro was writing about Canada, the cultural resonance reverberated for me, where
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