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Title: Disappointingly ordinary...
Review: (2.5 stars) Danticat is talented, without a doubt, but this book is a short story clumsily (and barely) stretched to novel length, chock full of archetypes and allegories but not nearly enough character development. In the end, you don't really know or care about anybody or anything; what should be an intense and emotionally harrowing story ends up flat and unfulfilling.It's a Lifetime TV movie-of-the-week. With an accent.
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