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Title: House of Emptiness
Review: I started reading this book with high expectations. I like reading books that leave room for the imagination. Half way through, I realized that I developed no connection with the characters. I didn't care for Ms. Nicolo and her cop boy-friend and more disappointingly I didn't like or sympathize with the Iranian family although the book's whole story line suggested that I should have because these poor people are foreigners who came to U.S.A by being forced out of their own country due to the regime changes and they are home-sick and trying to make a new living in this totally strange country with its strange rules, odd lifestyle etc. etc. I felt that the book was limiting my imagination by forcing me to read it as if I were watching a very predictable movie. I guess the author had a movie script in mind and arranged the whole story with that perception. Flavorless and a very empty book.
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