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Title: More than plot and characters, great book experience
Review: This was a slow read for me. I think there's some internal pacing going on, where only so much darkness and be ingested at a time. Plot, characters etc are secondary to how this book can move the reader. It's an experience. To recap the book's content, for me, does not, explain the effect of the book.Dubus wrote a tragedic novel that read, for me, like a timeless story of how close to madness life can be. We may live in parallel universes where each small decision leds us to the universe of redemption or to the universe of utter madness. We skip from one to the other with each decision. Unfortunately only saints or such are able stay on the course of redemption.I do not usually stumble across a reading experience like House of Sand and Fog, especially in today's world of formula story telling, formula diagloue and formula publishing.
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