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I am not crying. nope.
Gosh. What a powerful last 50 pages. The story was moving along just fine for the major part of the novel: it was a nice novel, mostly focussing on the plot with lots of interesting details about Maori culture and the Vietnam war, but nothing that made me think "oh yeah, that's why other reviewers said this book made them cry like babies". But this book really snuck up on me, and before I knew it, I was reading the last pages with tears in my eyes. ...more
Gosh. What a powerful last 50 pages. The story was moving along just fine for the major part of the novel: it was a nice novel, mostly focussing on the plot with lots of interesting details about Maori culture and the Vietnam war, but nothing that made me think "oh yeah, that's why other reviewers said this book made them cry like babies". But this book really snuck up on me, and before I knew it, I was reading the last pages with tears in my eyes. ...more
Dec 16, 2013
Jane(Pixie)
marked it as to-read
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Claire
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