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Jun 07, 2012jenzbooks rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
The first thing I noticed about Blake's writing is her gift for description: the large woman in the post office who looked like a "striped tent with no occasion"! The story has an immediacy to it created by the sympathetic characters whose experiences are described so well. We see the war as more a sad time rather than an atrocity, which is one reason this book is easy to like. It also demonstrates the power of story to make a life and the world understandable.