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Okay, this must be why I read almost exclusively Victorian fiction. I like books that have characters, a comprehensible plot, and that say something. This book completely lost me. It claims to be a poetic account of a moment in a woman's life, after she has lost both her parents. That much I got. But it doesn't make any sense! And the characters are so thinly drawn! I didn't care about the protagonist at all - or any of the other characters, for that matter. I spent most of the novel confused. I
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This got a rather lukewarm reception in book group, but I enjoyed the story.
"Memory lived not in initial possession but in the freed hands, pardoned and freed, and in the heart that can empty but fill again, in the patterns restored by dreams."
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my very first EUDORA WELTY ....
WOW!
WOW!
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