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Title: Disappointing, though I wanted to like it
Review: I totally agree with the writer from Uzbekistan who says that Danticat's writing style is lyrical and lovely, but there is just too damn much suffering in this book, especially of the kind involving female genitalia! I can understand why she mentions the Haitian mothers "testing" their daughters' virginity, which has quite a horrifying impact on the reader -- but why does Danticat insist on harping on this over and over and over? Once was enough! And there is definitely too much chronological jumping around. One minute the narrator is in love and about to marry; then in the next chapter she and her baby daughter are running away from the husband. Huh?
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