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For more reviews, check out my blog:Craft-CycleI received a copy of this book through Goodreads in exchange for an honest review.I didn't really know anything about the book going into it. The summary on the back cover sounded interesting enough. Once I started reading, I was really confused. The ba...
This multiple award nominee from the mid-1990s was not familiar to me until I found it on the "100 Novels That Make You Proud to be Canadian" CBC list. Like many books on that list, this one is Canadian-ish, in that Mootoo was born in Ireland, grew up in Trinidad and at the time of publication was d...
(Review originally posted on my livejournal account: xhttp://intoyourlungs.livejournal.com/35223.html)Why I Read It: Required reading for my Gender and Sexuality in Literature class.I had never heard of this book before finding out it was an assigned text for one of my classes, which is kind of sad ...
I read this book over the course of about three days. The generally smoothly written story, in spite of some problems of organization which betray a first novel, drew me through it. In spite of some terrible scenes of family violence (I admit that sometimes I skimmed this) it is not a depressing sto...
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