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What makes this book amazing is the characters. Verona is intriguing, somewhat mysterious and very sympathetic. Livesey gets inside the head of Zach, a young man with Asperger's Syndrome as she objectively describes his observations. As a result, the character Zach is very real and much more than an Asperger's patient. Often, when a novel is told in chapters that alternate between stories, one is substantially more interesting than the other, but the stories were well-matched, and both kept me eagerly reading.
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Banishing Verona: A Novel by Margot Livesey
Alexandra, August 29, 2006
What makes this book amazing is the characters. Verona is intriguing, somewhat mysterious and very sympathetic. Livesey gets inside the head of Zach, a young man with Asperger's Syndrome as she objectively describes his observations. As a result, the character Zach is very real and much more than an Asperger's patient. Often, when a novel is told in chapters that alternate between stories, one is substantially more interesting than the other, but the stories were well-matched, and both kept me eagerly reading.(4 of 8 readers found this comment helpful)