Leni Zumas's writing crackles. Her books are sharp, bleak, funny, and possibly dangerous. When her collection of short stories, Farewell Navigator,...
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sometimes you just appreciate a story that grounds you, reminds you about what's important in life --- I read the blogs daily, some of the papers -- so consider myself fairly worldly. but this book just got me, hard to explain, kind of like how a lightning and thunder storm can grab you, force you to abandon whatever it is you're doing, and just head out and watch the powerful forces of nature at work,
anyhow, that's what the best stories do: remove us from our couches, to take a look, a new, at the world. there you have it...jk
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sometimes you just appreciate a story that grounds you, reminds you about what's important in life --- I read the blogs daily, some of the papers -- so consider myself fairly worldly. but this book just got me, hard to explain, kind of like how a lightning and thunder storm can grab you, force you to abandon whatever it is you're doing, and just head out and watch the powerful forces of nature at work,anyhow, that's what the best stories do: remove us from our couches, to take a look, a new, at the world. there you have it...jk
(12 of 37 readers found this comment helpful)