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Title: Short, bittersweet, and powerful
Review: This tightly crafted story's surface level of life for Depression-era farm hands in Caifornia kept my interest even though that's not the sort of thing I'm usually drawn to.This book showed me a dimension to humanity I had never before been able to articulate: The paradoxal, divine, yet fungamenta nature of friendship.Steinbeck's gritty characters and setting are the perfect vehicle for a message that only sounds intellectual until you feel it. There is no fanfare, no flourish of trumpets, no pomp and circumstance, no canned philosophy -- just raw emotional truth.Some stories hold the mind's attention; this one touched my soul and made me simultaneously both proud and ashamed to be human. We are capable of ugliness but also such loving sacrifice. For a little book, it packs quite a punch.I am breathless. Give this book an afternoon and you will be too.
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