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Title: Wonderful fiction
Review: This is a wonderful book, however I was hoping that the story of Helen, Frederick Douglass's second wife would've been told. Instead we get the story of pitiful Ottile, who in real life was imbalanced and probably carried on the affair in her own head rather than real life. The chapters on Anna Douglass, however are superb. This is a tender portrait of a woman who loved a man who, despite their marriage, never really was in her grasp. My only real gripe is the on the final paragraphs of the final Ottile section. I can't describe it without giving the ending away but unless this is a ghost story, the ending doesn't make sense.
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