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Can hell be over come?

Revisado: 09-21-24

During the 80’s I sponsored dozens of refugee families from Vietnam, Thailand, Loas, and Cambodia! There were many Amerasian youth among them! This story reads true and the suffering is real!
When we don’t understand another countries culture or values we make horrible mistakes! The little people are the ones who suffer and the military on all sides destroy their youth!
I loved and hated this book as the same time! It rang so true that I had to cry for the stupidity of war once again!
It was a fabulous story!

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The power of desire and friendship and the interwoven consequences never leave our hearts!

Revisado: 09-05-24

The angst of youth, the mistakes of parents and the desire of a better future thread through this story creating a magnificent tale of survival and success and most of all family connection!

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The growth and self awareness of the main character!

Revisado: 08-14-24

It felt real and gave context to the reality of “the way things were”. Nice twist at the end!

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War and hate at home in the south can only be made right with enormous faith, hard work and love!

Revisado: 08-11-24

Truth through fiction! The horror of war, the love and lack of love and the earth it’s self can heal or destroy!

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She allowed us to see the hurt and pain of having a dis functional family and the pain of keeping secrets!

Revisado: 08-04-24

How she included diversity of culture groups and the environmentalists! She openly stated the fact of how some groups only care about themselves!

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Old values and incredible new perspectives!

Revisado: 07-30-24

The scientific knowledge and metaphysics blend into fascinating new types of “people’! Mind expanding and still within graspable concepts!

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Weep for our. Ignorance

Revisado: 06-14-23

A perfect analysis of the southern black man in the day. Southern white men suffered most of the same things. It was a true confession for every man in the day that had a gay son.
My father was a white man born in the late 20s. He had a gay brother. He totally ignored him his entire life. He had a gay son, and your story mirrored basically what happened to my brother. He was never loved or cherished or even given much thought by my dad. But he wasn’t exactly a man who loved any of his children. Thank you for saving yourself from your father’s failures!

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Demon Copperhead lives!!

Revisado: 12-17-22

Kingsolver writes the truest fiction ever in this book. The lives of adults destroyed by poverty and drugs and the broken pieces of the children left behind comes right out of the research papers! I have “met and have had conversations” with some of her characters. I got tired of the horror show and almost closed the book, but just like the addicts I had to turn the page! I could not stop until I had a decent ending so I could go to bed and sleep peacefully!

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Missing authentic language amidst lovely prose

Revisado: 06-02-22

Having knowledge of the foster care system is essential to this story! If your protagonists were sent from home to home you should guess that there education was hindered if not splintered! You never made mention is Mel’s love of reading. How did she get so articulate that prose rolled off her tongue in such an impressive manner. Moreover my husbands family were rural country people! They had skills and life way views that were amazing. There speech was studded with unique words but never flowery language. There skills were indeed handed down from mother to daughter, but not even a college educated daughter would speak as though she was working on a PHD in literature. Her grandchildren were the first to go to college. They still speak country slang! My biggest concern was how you missed basic “country”. No one in the south “breaks” beans. They “snap” beans; they “tote “ their baskets and you left out the cast iron skillet, which is essential for cornbread. Cornbread is still the daily bread of the poor in the south! Your beautiful language skills did nothing for my heart,nor to give the people in your story an authentic language to reach my heart. Simple language for country folk; sophisticated language for academics! Keep writing!

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Cursing life and loving the woods!

Revisado: 01-28-22

A hard and wonderful life in a hard and beautiful place through the eyes of a young man inspired my imagination. I regret that the author did not have two voices: one for the young man and one for the old man! Once I had the voice of the young man in my mind it was hard to hear the old man with the same voice. The story was rife with metaphors and symbols of the rough and tumble world of an orphan trying to handle the world on his own.

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