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Book Review of The House of Special Purpose

The House of Special Purpose
Helpful Score: 3


A wonderful book! It begins in 1981 as Georgy visits his dying wife Zoya each day in the hospital and is told through his lifetime of memories with her. It unfolds with love, regrets, loyalty, guilt, and fear back to the reign of the Romonovs and an impoverished childhood in Russia. Some surprising revelations along this intense and moving journey. I loved it!