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The basic premise of the book was intriguing. Mina Edelman has become convinced that her entire family was reincarnated from Abraham Lincoln, his wife and children. The number of family members doesn't match up until a revelation comes up halfway through the book, but enough details do that it's kind of a fun premise. Some of it didn't pay off well or consistently. For instance, a kid obsessed enough with health, disease and medicine to be able to flash-diagnose strep throat would seem likely to
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I found this book to be all over the place. I liked the historical fiction aspect of the book. I thought it was clever to have a story line with Abraham Lincoln and the current connection to Martin Luther King Jr., but the characters in the book were having their own personal turmoil that made the book feel choppy and left you questioning the main idea behind the book. It felt like two different books combined in one.
