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Title: Extraordinary!
Review: This novel is simply a great story, written in crystal-clear prose. The bottom line is, you'll stay up all night reading it. One of the book's pleasures is the extraordinary research that Diliberto clearly did - about the life of the real Virginie Amelie Gautreau, (who was referred to by her nickname Mimi;) about daily plantation life in Louisianna before the War, the community of souther expatriates who took shelter in Paris afterwards, the techniques that of 19th. century painting. Every detail has authority.
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