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Caroline Hewitt
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Jean Kwok
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Recommended by The New York Times • Elle • Good Morning America • TIME • People • New York Post • Real Simple • Goodreads • LibraryReads • and many more!
An evocative family drama and a riveting mystery about the ferocious pull of motherhood for two very different women—from the New York Times bestselling author of Searching for Sylvie Lee and Girl in Translation.
"Intriguing. . . Kwok is a skilled writer of suspenseful family drama. . . . We root for Jasmine and Rebecca as they face impossible choices and emerge stronger for all the battles they’ve fought, always resisting becoming the ‘leftover’ women.”—Leigh Haber, New York Times Book Review
Jasmine Yang arrives in New York City from her rural Chinese village without money or family support, fleeing a controlling husband, on a desperate search for the daughter who was taken from her at birth—another female casualty of China’s controversial One Child Policy. But with her husband on her trail, the clock is ticking, and she’s forced to make increasingly risky decisions if she ever hopes to be reunited with her daughter.
Meanwhile, publishing executive Rebecca Whitney seems to have it all: a prestigious family name and the wealth that comes with it, a high-powered career, a beautiful home, a handsome husband, and an adopted Chinese daughter she adores. She’s even hired a nanny to help her balance the demands of being a working wife and mother. But when an industry scandal threatens to jeopardize not only Rebecca’s job but her marriage, this perfect world begins to crumble and her role in her own family is called into question.
The Leftover Woman finds these two unforgettable women on a shocking collision course. Twisting and suspenseful and surprisingly poignant, it's a profound exploration of identity and belonging, motherhood and family. It is a story of two women in a divided city—separated by severe economic and cultural differences yet bound by a deep emotional connection to a child.
“A magnetic meditation on secret histories, motherhood, love, and how we show up for each other in the most surprising of ways. A beautiful, propulsive story!”—Laura Dave, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Last Thing He Told Me
"A heart-tugging exploration of love, belonging, and the meaning of family."—Ruth Ware, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The It Girl
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Mack Anders will do anything for his wife, Daisy. Even die. With the woman he loves fading away from Alzheimer’s, Mack fakes his own passing. The insurance makes certain that Daisy will be taken care of with dignity and comfort until the end. In a lonesome cabin in the Wyoming wilderness, he lives off the grid with nothing but thoughts of the past to keep him company and the belief that Daisy is better off without him.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good Story, Well Told
- De Jo from Texas en 11-04-24
De: Melissa Payne
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Girl in Translation
- De: Jean Kwok
- Narrado por: Grayce Wey
- Duración: 9 h y 5 m
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When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings. Disguising the more difficult truths of her life-like the staggering degree of her poverty, the weight of her family's future resting on her shoulders, or her secret love for a factory boy who shares none of her talent or ambition-Kimberly learns to constantly translate not just her language but herself back and forth between the worlds she straddles.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This is a keeper
- De Suzette en 06-25-10
De: Jean Kwok
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Searching for Sylvie Lee
- A Novel
- De: Jean Kwok
- Narrado por: Angela Lin, Samantha Quan, Caroline McLaughlin
- Duración: 12 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,298
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A poignant and suspenseful drama that untangles the complicated ties binding three women - two sisters and their mother - in one Chinese immigrant family and explores what happens when the eldest daughter disappears, and a series of family secrets emerge, from the New York Times best-selling author of Girl in Translation.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Wordy and boring
- De Sheila S en 06-11-19
De: Jean Kwok
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Mambo in Chinatown
- A Novel
- De: Jean Kwok
- Narrado por: Angela Lin
- Duración: 12 h y 52 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 113
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Twenty-two-year-old Charlie Wong grew up in New York's Chinatown, the older daughter of a Beijing ballerina and a noodle maker. Though an ABC (America-born Chinese), Charlie's entire world has been limited to this small area. Now grown, she lives in the same tiny apartment with her widower father and her 11-year-old sister, and works - miserably - as a dishwasher. But when she lands a job as a receptionist at a ballroom dance studio, Charlie gains access to a world she hardly knew exis.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved the inside view of two different worlds
- De Curt W en 07-12-14
De: Jean Kwok
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Happiness Falls (Good Morning America Book Club)
- A Novel
- De: Angie Kim
- Narrado por: Shannon Tyo, Sean Patrick Hopkins, Thomas Pruyn, y otros
- Duración: 13 h y 4 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 635
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Mia, the irreverent, hyperanalytical twenty-year-old daughter, has an explanation for everything—which is why she isn’t initially concerned when her father and younger brother Eugene don’t return from a walk in a nearby park. They must have lost their phone. Or stopped for an errand somewhere. But by the time Mia’s brother runs through the front door bloody and alone, it becomes clear that the father in this tight-knit family is missing and the only witness is Eugene, who has the rare genetic condition Angelman syndrome and cannot speak.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A mixed review, but recommend
- De Andrea B. en 09-07-23
De: Angie Kim
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Jackie
- A Novel
- De: Dawn Tripp
- Narrado por: Linda Jones, Karissa Vacker
- Duración: 14 h y 28 m
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When Jackie is twenty-one, she meets the charismatic congressman Jack Kennedy at a dinner party in Georgetown. She is dreaming of France, of a life of freedom and adventure. She has won an internship at Vogue, and she thinks Kennedy is not her kind of adventure: “Too American. Too good-looking. Too boy.” And yet there is his intelligence, his humor and drive, and the chemistry between them. He pursues her, then disappears, then pursues her again in a pattern of intimacy and distance.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Top notch author
- De Jeff Greenberg en 02-16-25
De: Dawn Tripp
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The Wild Road Home
- A Novel
- De: Melissa Payne
- Narrado por: Landon Woodson, Lisa Cordileone
- Duración: 11 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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Mack Anders will do anything for his wife, Daisy. Even die. With the woman he loves fading away from Alzheimer’s, Mack fakes his own passing. The insurance makes certain that Daisy will be taken care of with dignity and comfort until the end. In a lonesome cabin in the Wyoming wilderness, he lives off the grid with nothing but thoughts of the past to keep him company and the belief that Daisy is better off without him.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good Story, Well Told
- De Jo from Texas en 11-04-24
De: Melissa Payne
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The Heiress
- A Novel
- De: Rachel Hawkins, Kiara Ronaghan
- Narrado por: Dan Bittner, Eliza Foss, John Pirhalla
- Duración: 8 h y 20 m
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When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she’s not only North Carolina’s richest woman, she’s also its most notorious. The victim of a famous kidnapping as a child and a widow four times over, Ruby ruled the tiny town of Tavistock from Ashby House, her family’s estate high in the Blue Ridge Mountains. But in the aftermath of her death, her adopted son, Camden, wants little to do with the house or the money—and even less to do with the surviving McTavishes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Can’t get over the mispronunciation of Appalachia
- De Brandon Pierson en 01-16-24
De: Rachel Hawkins, y otros
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Family Family
- A Novel
- De: Laurie Frankel
- Narrado por: Laurie Frankel, Patti Murin
- Duración: 14 h y 57 m
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India Allwood grew up wanting to be an actor. Armed with a stack of index cards (for research/line memorization/make-shift confetti), she goes from awkward sixteen-year-old to Broadway ingenue to TV superhero. Her new movie is a prestige picture about adoption, but its spin is the same old tired story of tragedy. India is an adoptive mom in real life though. She wants everyone to know there’s more to her family than pain and regret. So she does something you should never do—she tells a journalist the truth: it’s a bad movie.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Interesting story but horrible language
- De Jed en 01-26-24
De: Laurie Frankel
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Dust Child
- De: Que Mai Phan Nguyen
- Narrado por: Quyen Ngo
- Duración: 12 h y 28 m
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From the internationally bestselling author of The Mountains Sing, a propulsive and moving tale of wartime love, family, and loss, as an American GI, two Vietnamese bargirls, and an Amerasian man are forced to make decisions during and after the Việt Nam War that will reverberate throughout each other’s lives.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful and moving
- De TPT en 06-17-23
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Throwback
- De: Maurene Goo
- Narrado por: Jennifer Sun Bell
- Duración: 11 h y 27 m
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Being a first-generation Asian American immigrant is hard. You know what’s harder? Being the daughter of one. Priscilla is first-generation Korean American, a former high school cheerleader who expects Sam to want the same all-American nightmare. Meanwhile, Sam is a girl of the times who has no energy for clichéd high school aspirations. After a huge blowup, Sam is desperate to get away from Priscilla, but instead, finds herself thrown back. Way back.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fun time travel twist
- De Kindle Customer en 12-03-23
De: Maurene Goo
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The Vaster Wilds
- A Novel
- De: Lauren Groff
- Narrado por: January LaVoy
- Duración: 7 h y 5 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 485
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A servant girl escapes from a colonial settlement in the wilderness. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god that burns hot within her. What she finds in this terra incognita is beyond the limits of her imagination and will bend her belief in everything that her own civilization has taught her.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Slow torture written too hastily
- De Jennifer en 09-23-23
De: Lauren Groff
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The Unmaking of June Farrow
- A Novel
- De: Adrienne Young
- Narrado por: Brittany Pressley
- Duración: 10 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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In the small mountain town of Jasper, North Carolina, June Farrow is waiting for fate to find her. The Farrow women are known for their thriving flower farm—and the mysterious curse that has plagued their family line. The whole town remembers the madness that led to Susanna Farrow’s disappearance, leaving June to be raised by her grandmother and haunted by rumors.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Original storyline
- De Emmaline en 10-30-23
De: Adrienne Young
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Husbands & Lovers
- A Novel
- De: Beatriz Williams
- Narrado por: Helen Laser, Caroline Hewitt
- Duración: 12 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 978
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New England, 2022. Three years ago, single mother Mallory Dunne received the telephone call every parent dreads—her ten-year-old son, Sam, had been airlifted from summer camp with acute poisoning from a toxic death cap mushroom, leaving him fighting for his life. Now, searching for the donor kidney that will give her son a chance for a normal life, Mallory’s forced to confront two harrowing secrets from her past: her mother’s adoption from an infamous Irish orphanage in 1952, and her own all-consuming summer romance fourteen years earlier with her childhood best friend, Monk Adams.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Twisty
- De Brian lambert en 07-04-24
De: Beatriz Williams
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What You Are Looking For Is in the Library
- A Novel
- De: Michiko Aoyama
- Narrado por: Hanako Footman, Susan Momoko Hingley, Kenichiro Thomson, y otros
- Duración: 7 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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What are you looking for? So asks Tokyo’s most enigmatic librarian. For Sayuri Komachi is able to sense exactly what each visitor to her library is searching for and provide just the book recommendation to help them find it. A restless retail assistant looks to gain new skills, a mother tries to overcome demotion at work after maternity leave, a conscientious accountant yearns to open an antique store, a recently retired salaryman searches for newfound purpose. In Komachi’s unique book recommendations they will find just what they need to achieve their dreams.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The power of honesty and an open mind
- De ili pika en 09-10-23
De: Michiko Aoyama
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Your Little Lies
- An Addictive and Gripping Domestic Thriller
- De: Sue Fortin
- Narrado por: Imogen Church
- Duración: 11 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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When Hannah and Jasper move to Silverbanks, a luxury gated neighbourhood, it’s a dream come true. This house, with its floor-to-ceiling glass doors, direct access to the sandy beach, and close-knit, caring community, will be the perfect place to raise their precious daughter, Pia. And then Hannah meets her next-door neighbour. The flicker of recognition in his eyes only lasts for a second, but it’s enough. Suddenly, her safe haven has become the most dangerous place she could be. Unless she does something about it.
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3 out of 5 stars
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ok but ending is good
- De lisa en 09-25-24
De: Sue Fortin
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Absolution
- A Novel
- De: Alice McDermott
- Narrado por: Jesse Vilinsky, Rachel Kenney
- Duración: 10 h y 2 m
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American women—American wives—have been mostly minor characters in the literature of the Vietnam War, but in Absolution they take center stage. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney on loan to navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a bully. In Saigon in 1963, the two women form a wary alliance as they balance the era’s mandate to be “helpmeets” to their ambitious husbands with their own, inchoate impulse to “do good” for the people of Vietnam.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The narration was brilliant…totally engrossing and beautifully spoken
- De Karen Lausa en 12-13-23
De: Alice McDermott
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Sandwich
- A Novel
- De: Catherine Newman
- Narrado por: Nan McNamara
- Duración: 5 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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For the past two decades, Rocky has looked forward to her family’s yearly escape to Cape Cod. Their humble beach-town rental has been the site of sweet memories, sunny days, great meals, and messes of all kinds. This year’s vacation, with Rocky sandwiched between her half-grown kids and fully aging parents, promises to be just as delightful as summers past—except, perhaps, for Rocky’s hormonal bouts of rage and melancholy. Her body is changing—her life is, too. And then a chain of events sends Rocky into the past, reliving both the tenderness and sorrow of a handful of long-ago summers.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Stoppppppp Already!
- De Tara L. Darbyshire en 06-22-24
De: Catherine Newman
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The Drowning Woman
- De: Robyn Harding
- Narrado por: Brittany Wilkerson, Heni Zoutomou
- Duración: 9 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,828
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Lee Gulliver never thought she’d find herself living on the streets—no one ever does—but when her restaurant fails, and she falls deeper into debt, she leaves her old life behind with nothing but her clothes and her Toyota Corolla. In Seattle, she parks in a secluded spot by the beach to lay low and plan her next move—until early one morning, she sees a sobbing woman throw herself into the ocean. Lee hauls the woman back to the surface, but instead of appreciation, she is met with fury.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good book except for ending
- De Rhonda Morrison en 08-07-23
De: Robyn Harding
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- pam
- 11-17-23
A great read
Has historical references, suspense, passion. A great story recalling the immigrants from China and those who came illegally and why.
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- J. Ondracek
- 06-04-24
Fantastic writing!
Love how the words painted pictures and made you feel the characters emotions. Great story. Worth a read.
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- Cass24
- 11-11-23
Compelling beautiful story
I really loved this book and wanted to know more about the main character and Anthony! Do they end up together. I would read an entire book on that. But I loved this entire story. Very compelling and sad.
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- Amazon Customer
- 01-08-24
Full of surprises
I loved this book, yet another written by my fellow high school alum. The relationships are well developed, the story engaging, and the narrators were a plus!  
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- susan bacon
- 12-30-23
The ending is not what I thought!
I really enjoyed this book! Ended different than I thought! Glad I found this book.
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- Janice Clow
- 03-23-24
Great read!
Totally enjoyed this book. Definitely recommend. FiFi is a lucky girl to have the parents she has
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-04-23
Excellent
A wonderful story and great reader. I Look forward to reading more from this author.
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- Raquel Dasilva
- 03-18-24
Patience then WOW!
This story started out a bit slow, I stuck with it and it was well worth the wait. Loved the selflessness of these characters.
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- Lina
- 11-16-24
Just hang in there
Till the last part I was just intrigued how it will end. But also thought to myself that I don’t like any of the characters.
But the last part was so great, connected all the dots and showed all characters as relatable messy people. Highly recommend this book!
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- Shelley W
- 01-06-24
Heartbreaking Page Turner
I was totally immersed in the story. The narration was superb. The twists and turns were unexpected and although heartbreaking, it also had bursts of joy.
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