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Loved this book as a wonderful, magnificent tapestry and map of the loves, lives and actions of the great and flawed people and characters in the fictional coastal town of Neawanaka. For the first time in a long while, I enjoyed this story's characters being not only the human inhabitants, but the animals, spirits and, especially, the landscape itself. Each as important as the other in completing the tale.
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Samuel Sloane, August 28, 2012
Loved this book as a wonderful, magnificent tapestry and map of the loves, lives and actions of the great and flawed people and characters in the fictional coastal town of Neawanaka. For the first time in a long while, I enjoyed this story's characters being not only the human inhabitants, but the animals, spirits and, especially, the landscape itself. Each as important as the other in completing the tale.(2 of 4 readers found this comment helpful)