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Madeleine
This book is all over the place, by design. I read the whole thing and I still cannot tell you whether or not this “works.” Guess that must mean that it does, at least on some level. It worked enough to unsettle me, anyway, and to keep me reading, and to make me want to read Rizzuto's novel.

Rizutto went to Japan in 2001 to research her second novel, which was going to be about an atomic bomb survivor in Hiroshima. Everything fell apart--there is no novel--and what there is instead is this story
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