Laura P. (hemmputnam) reviewed on 11/18/2013 + 1118 more book reviews

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I thought it was beautifully written with wonderful connections made between the characters and great truths presented in a succinct manner. For example, "I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us." Could his description of a doctor's children in the US be any more true? "their blithe ignorance of the arbitrary genetic lottery that has granted them their privileged lives."
Even when terrible or painful things happen to his characters, there is also an undercurrent of hope. "But even if the ground of her life was broken with a lie, what Pari has since planted in that ground stands as true and sturdy and unshakable as a giant oak."

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