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Title: A great incorporation of an old classic
Review: March Murray comes home from California only to come face to face with Hollis, her first love. With her is her daughter who finds a somewhat comforting companion in her cousin, Hank. This meeting between March and Hollis sets off a chain of events which rekindles an intense, yet destructive, passion that to consume them.Anyone who has read the original will see the parallel. The story of Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw has been immortalized over the years and Hoffman has incorporated that love story in a fundamental way. Hoffman does a fantastic job of integrating a contemporary what-if spin on Bronte's novel, Wuthering Heights. I read this book on the recommendation of a professor after reading Emily Bronte's novel but it sparked my interest in the selections Oprah does choose for her Book Club. As a book, on its own, this novel can stand, but foreknowledge of the parallel premise between it and Bronte's novel is what makes Here on Earth a moving story.
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