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OMG! I assumed, since I'd seen or read all about these foreign dump communities where toddlers and pregnant woman were forced to scavenge for junk to sell to feed the family, or maybe to find a few t-shirts to cover the babies, a sheet for a roof, a pot to cook in etc., that this would be a book of agonies. I did not want to read of yet more of the agonies of poverty, to feel guilty because I could buy designer toilet paper. But I wanted the book off my shelf, and as long as I started it, I could quit it early on. It would have had its chance.
This book was nothing like that, though it was clearly shown the poverty and down-troddenness of the people, the dying babies. There was love, such deep love, and redemption in the tormented emotional life of one of the main characters, the fulfillment and rewards for the striving friends, spouses, families. And humor. Once again a male author writes females as if he has lived as such before, and he has such a knack with words that you are suddenly laughing at a mere phrase that he tacked on to something tragic.
I loved this book.
This book was nothing like that, though it was clearly shown the poverty and down-troddenness of the people, the dying babies. There was love, such deep love, and redemption in the tormented emotional life of one of the main characters, the fulfillment and rewards for the striving friends, spouses, families. And humor. Once again a male author writes females as if he has lived as such before, and he has such a knack with words that you are suddenly laughing at a mere phrase that he tacked on to something tragic.
I loved this book.
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