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Title: ouch!
Review: This book can be summed up in one simple sentence: life is hard and then it gets harder. The author heaps so many bad things on the main character you start to guess exactly what is going to happen before it does. Despite all this calamity, however, the heoroine never seems to change or grow. The other people in the book are pretty much stock characters: the inattentive, incompetent doctor, the town drunk, the pinch-mouthed mother-in-law, etc. In addition, this is a familiar tale of hard scrabble existence and survival in the face of all. It has been told elsewhere and much better. Check out: MY DROWNING.
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