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Title: A book of unusual, complex characters.
Review: Sabine's husband, Parsifal the Magician, suddenly dies unexpectedly. After 20 years in a most unusual union, Sabine thinks she knows all there is to know about her former mate. However, she soon finds out that smoke and mirrors were Parsifal's stock-in-trade on many fronts. As she comes into contact with the family her husband strove so hard to conceal, she finds others trying to sort out a different sort of grief Parsifal left behind in Nebraska. As Sabine and Parsifal's family try to understand the dynamics of Parsifal's lives with the other party, one can almost see the way to healing and redemption for at least some of those involved.A book of unusual, complex characters in non conventional settings, the strength of this book is how it demonstrates that, no matter how different and non-conformist we may be on the surface, we are nevertheless very remarkably the same in what we want and what we fear.A lovely and oddly inspiring story.
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