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May 2008
THE LIBRARY | BOOK REVIEWS | DONNE TEMPO | Jun 2008

My Best Friend's Girl by Dorothy Koomson

May/09/08 04:54 PM Filed in: Fiction
My Best Friend's Girl by Dorothy Koomson
Dorothy Koomson’s, My Best Friend’s Girl, is an easy read. The writing is quick and accessible. It is a classic in the English modern farce style. The plot is the tale of the broken hearted Kamryn and how she learns to love again through the adoption of her dead best friend’s daughter. It is almost pulpy, in that the story includes cheating fiancés, childhood abuse, physical abuse, foster homes and cancer. Read the review...
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A Free Life by Ha Jin

May/08/08 04:48 PM Filed in: Fiction
A Free Life by Ha Jin
Ha Jin’s A Free Life tells the story of Nan a Chinese academic, and immigrant, over twenty years in the United States. His is a success story, but he is personally unfulfilled. Ha Jin does not give the reader pat answers or mollifying plot leaps. The running theme of Nan’s detachment from China, his motherland, serves as a greater question. Are we, as individuals, what we have come from or what we make of ourselves?
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