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Title: Exquisite and Timeless
Review: The largest Welsh speaking communities outside of Wales are in the anthracite coal mining regions of Northeastern Pennsylvania, which is where I was born and raised. When I was a child the Welsh Baptist churchgoers still sang the hymns in Welsh, the neighbors spoke Welsh, my grandparents spoke Welsh, and everyone worked in the mines. While this book is a memory piece set in Wales, it might as well be set 70 years later in my hometown. Every character is authentic; every word is authentic; every emotion, reaction, sentiment and family situation is authentic. There are lots of "big canvas" sagas, and memoirs, and historical novels, but there is no other book I can think of that so honestly recreates a lost time, place, and people. If you have any interest at all in Wales: The First Place, this is the book with which to begin.
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