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Title: This prose crackles like fire.
Review: Three Apples Fell From Heaven is alive, mesmerizing, and searing. Micheline Aharonian Marcom's novel is a perfect literary marriage of poetry and narrative-I drank in every word even as I was horrified by the genocide's atrocities. Through sensitive Anaguil's story, loosely based on Marcom's grandmother's, I understood how humans survive, and even triumph over, extremely traumatic experiences, and are changed forever. Anaguil is a remarkable character, totally endearing, unpretentious, and profound. Reading Marcom's novel made me think, "oh yes, I know what she means!, but I had no idea it could experienced and expressed in such a gorgeous and evocative way." She elicits truth(s) from the mundane, profane, and sublime. I can't wait for her next novel.
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