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Authentically brilliant

Revisado: 07-29-24

Authentic, REAL, hilarious yet also painful, at times, as real life is. This book was everything I needed in an autobiography. Thank you, Tyler!!!! And Bravo!

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Stellar!!!!

Revisado: 07-14-24

Reads like an adventure thriller you won’t be able to put down & leaves you begging for more!

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Emotionally rich.

Revisado: 08-24-23

Captivating from Chapter one, this is a read that I won’t soon forget. A glowing 5 stars from me! Just Brilliant!

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Speechless!

Revisado: 05-11-23

The book was GOOD! The epilogue left me with a gaping jaw as I gasped NOOOO WAAAAYYYYY! Now that’s an ending, folks!

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A thought provokingly powerful & remarkable read.

Revisado: 04-01-23

Reads like a memoir, and while, I’ll readily profess to its taking me a minute to get into, and even questioning if I’d continue reading it a few chapters in, it was not long after that that Homeland Elegies narrator/protagonist had be me so thoroughly engrossed that I stayed up waaaaay past “bedtime” two nights in a row to finish this book. It is at once, intensely intelligent & emotionally raw. Homeland Elegies will require a few reads for me to fully digest, I think. And I’ll be reading it again, soon.

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I’m left quite sullen, befreit honestly upon this ending…

Revisado: 03-23-23

I’ve read patiently, & was fully engrossed with in my own belief that all of our main players and protagonists would manage through love, thoughtful, kindness & a sense longing for familial love and intimate connection, that they would all come together at Arthur Ott’s dinner party & and that these bonds would forge and lives would be merged there in that very moment in Arthur Opp’s Brownstone and all futures made bright with love, intent, and interest in future possibilities & opportunities for each & all players involved together and done so as their own chosen form of family, with Arthur at the helm. So, I am definitely left bereft here, and feel like the book should NOT END HERE. This is not sitting easily with me,,, a very unfinished ending. Makes me a bit down… just sad, I truly believed that there would be more…. And I am truthfully disappointed that there is not. Lousy ending!

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Absolutely BRILLIANT!

Revisado: 12-14-22

While this is by no means an easy read, nor is it easy to read, it is an absolutely stellar book of importance and value in understanding our histories and a contribution to literature. I think this will become a great classic in the future. I hope it will. I feel it deserves it.

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Fantastic!

Revisado: 11-23-22

Grabbed me page 1 & held me there until the very end. Excellent suspense thriller & well written. Bravo.

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TREMENDOUS!

Revisado: 09-17-21

Rebecca Makkai, with the help of Michael Crouch (narrator), has accomplished a truly beautiful thing here. This is one of those books that will never leave you, it will enter your heart & soul & remain with you forever. A book you’ll require a “mourning period” upon completion. A book so beautifully written & richly developed you’ll wish it never to end. For the characters to stay, to just stay & be with you forever. This book is a rare find. A masterpiece of character development unlike anything I’ve experienced before. It will leave you raw, and in awe. Much like Hanya Yanagihara’s “A Little Life”, but a little less depressing & tortured, a little.

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Incredible!!!!!

Revisado: 06-25-20

I walked an entire downtown (small European) city just to NOT have to stop listening. I could not stop listening to this audiobook! Holy Moses, this book is fantastic!

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