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Title: "Magical...Lyrical..."yes
Review: I found this book accidentally, a few years ago (as an adult) and read it based on my previous reading of the 'standard' Le Guin (read in college): "The Dispossesed" & "The Left Hand of Darkness".This is a story of a young person growing up -or fighting against growing up in the conventional societal sense.I was rapidly taken in by the story and mesmerized, I could hardly put it down. Somehow this book touched my soul.Maybe because I also was once a grocery clerk... .It seems to be a polarizing book, some other reviewers were lukewarm or disliked it, I guess that makes it special if it can speak in different ways to different people.I recommend reading "The Beginning Place", and see for yourself.
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