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Title: Proof that shameless imitation sells books.
Review: Regardless of textual merits, and regardless of compelling story, the author it seems has abandoned the concept of originality in favor of something much more unbecoming. She should simply subtitle her story a homage to Flannery O'Connor's "Wise Blood." Mortification with trash in shoes and with barbed wire on the body has been done before by O'Connor; the impact of Protestant fundamentalism on people either unable or unwilling to think things through honestly and faithfully has been done before by O'Connor. This current incarnation of O'Connor's themes does not speak well of the author--or the publisher.
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