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“Excellent. I've never read a Dubus novel before, and as predicted by other critics, I did empathize with the characters--stripper, wife beater, militant fundamentalist Muslim, and bouncer with a learning disability. I'm grateful for a writer who can keep me turning pages as my emotions rock from frustration for characters' poor choices to grief for their background experiences that shaped their desires and will. How startling to recognize, not just how different, but how much I am like all of them.”
