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Title: A Surreal Collage
Review: Meaning and understanding become secondary in this highly unusual, lyrical arrangement of words. The book is hard to read, as the sentences and ideas flow into a tangle of words, sometimes forthright and cuttingly honest and then as illusive and mysterious to grasp as the dry wind that blows through Northern New Mexico. What little I've seen and know of that region, seems hazily yet honestly etched in this very unusual writing. Summer Wood gives the reader a glimpse of the desolation, the bonds of family and the struggle for survival and meaning. Very far away from Hillerman's version of this landscape. More a symphony of wind and hope and hopelessness and caring. Twice I put the book aside, for it became overwhelming and I could just absorb so much of the rather poetic cadence and illusive emotion. I am unconvinced that I truly understood it, but I certainly enjoyed the richness of this read.
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