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I love the structure of this novel. It's a family story told from the different perspective of its members during different years--out of order. A constant is a certain day in 1989 that keeps getting retold, from varied points of view, and each time it's told, you go a little deeper into the day, you find out a little more. I've never seen exactly that before. Of course I've read stories that are told out of order so you know characters' fates before they do and sometimes you get to go back and
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