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Name : | Carol L. |
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A beautifully written book about the mystical spiritual journey of a young girl in Mexico in the late 1800s. She was a real person and a distant relative of the author who did an amazing amount of research into the history and legends of her life. The author does a wonderful job of putting the reader in that time and place and making her story very compelling. Give it a chance at the beginning. It builds and builds in wonderful layers.
If I could have given it less than one star, I would have. I will not give this book to anyone, sell it at a garage sale or donate it to a book sale. The only thing worth doing with it is tearing it up for recycling or kindling. No where on the jacket does it indicate that it is an anti-choice fantasy. As the book progresses it becomes more and more preachy and preposterous. I read to the end just to see how far the author would go - pretty far! In the author's note at the end of the book, she says that abortion is the most divisive issue of our time. She calls this book a fable, but it is so simplistic that it does nothing to advance dialogue or find common ground. Our book club "won" it when we joined BookMovement.com and now I am wondering if that was a way for someone to spread their fundamentalist Christian propaganda.
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