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Title: Book's theme is right on
Review: The "message" of this book calls us to examine the western culture we have created and decide if it really does bring happiness. The author thinks not, and in her story submerges an American in an Aboriginal culture for 3 months to show the differences. The story is fascinating, and the conclusion is that the indigenous culture providing for peoples' emotional needs above physical needs, whereas our western culture is just the opposite. There was criticism when this book was published that many of the facts about the lives of the Aborigines were erroneous, but the book is fiction. I am sure the author made up a lot of the details and since it's fiction that's fine. Making a factual account of a 3 month walkabout was not the claim of the book - comparing two radically different social environments and drawing conclusions from that comparison was the intent. Very thought provoking; I highly recommend it to any socially aware reader.
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