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Title: Totally engrossing and extremely compelling
Review: You will be compelled to read this book over and over again. The characters will draw you into this story set in New York City and a fictional small island town located somewhere between Georgia and S. Carolina. The supernatural aspects of the book will leave you breathlessly in awe of Naylor's ability to weave times, events, and characters into an intrinsic quilt of fictious reality. There were times I forgot the characters were not real people and that Willow Springs does not actually exist. Naylor's words alone create the smells, tastes, and colors of a rural island town, as she brings the characters alive with colorful dialogue and imagery, placing her on equal ground with authors like Toni Morrison and Octavia Butler (Kindred). Each time you read this book, you will discover pieces of a complex puzzle that you might have overlooked the first time. This is a books that requires you to stay aware while reading it.
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