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Narrado por:
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Nick Sullivan
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Robin Miles
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Laird Hunt
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As a teenage girl, Ginny marries Linus Lancaster, her mother's second cousin, and moves to his Kentucky pig farm "ninety miles from nowhere." In the shadows of the lush Kentucky landscape, Ginny discovers the empty promises of Linus' "paradise" - a place where the charms of her husband fall away to reveal a troubled man and cruel slave owner. Ginny befriends the young slaves Cleome and Zinnia who work at the farm - until Linus' attentions turn to them, and she finds herself torn between her husband and only companions. The events that follow Linus' death change all three women for life.
Haunting, chilling, and suspenseful, Kind One. is a powerful tale of redemption and human endurance in antebellum America.
Laird Hunt is the author of several works of fiction and a finalist for the 2010 PEN Center USA Award in Fiction. Currently on the faculty of the University of Denver's creative writing program, he and his wife, the poet Eleni Sikelianos, live in Boulder, Colorado, with their daughter, Eva Grace.
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Cotton County, Georgia, 1930: In a house full of secrets, two babies - one light-skinned, the other dark - are born to Elma Jesup, a white sharecropper's daughter. Accused of her rape, field hand Genus Jackson is lynched and dragged behind a truck down the Twelve-Mile Straight, the road to the nearby town. In the aftermath, the farm's inhabitants are forced to contend with their complicity in a series of events that left a man dead and a family irrevocably fractured.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great read!
- De S. Clay en 11-01-17
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Cataloochee
- De: Wayne Caldwell
- Narrado por: Scott Sowers
- Duración: 12 h y 19 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 55
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Debut novelist Wayne Caldwell's Cataloochee -a rich, vivid, arresting work beginning at the dawn of Reconstruction - sprawls across the succeeding generations like the vast green mountains of its rural North Carolina setting. Best-selling author Charles Frazier calls it "a brilliant portrait of a community and a way of life long gone, a lost America." This enthralling saga evokes the full color spectrum of mountain life, from lights to darks and every shade in between.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love It!
- De Cynthia J. Hakansson en 02-27-09
De: Wayne Caldwell
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Running on Red Dog Road
- And Other Perils of an Appalachian Childhood
- De: Drema Hall Berkheimer
- Narrado por: Bailey Carr
- Duración: 6 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 202
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 172
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 173
Gypsies, faith-healers, moonshiners, and snake handlers weave through Drema's childhood in 1940s Appalachia after her father is killed in the coal mines, her mother goes off to work as a Rosie the Riveter, and she is left in the care of devout Pentecostal grandparents. What follows is a spitfire of a memoir that feels like a novel with intrigue, sweeping emotion, and indisputable charm. Drema's coming of age is colored by tent revivals with Grandpa, poetry-writing hobos, and traveling carnivals, and through it all, she serves witness to a multi-generational family.
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5 out of 5 stars
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real life
- De Richard M. en 10-05-22
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Gap Creek
- De: Robert Morgan
- Narrado por: Jill Hill
- Duración: 4 h y 41 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 243
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 149
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 151
Gap Creek is a powerful and touching story of a marriage at the turn of the century. For Julie and Hank, life grinds ever on without pause or concern for hard work. From devastating floods to encounters with intoxicated grifters, they survive the disappointments and triumphs of their new life together. An Oprah Book Club Pick. Browse more Oprah selections.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Painfully beautiful...
- De Eileen en 09-23-03
De: Robert Morgan
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How Green Was My Valley
- De: Richard Llewellyn
- Narrado por: Ralph Cosham
- Duración: 16 h y 22 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 665
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 581
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 580
How Green Was My Valley is Richard Llewellyn’s best-selling - and timeless - classic, as well as the basis of a beloved film. As Huw Morgan is about to leave home forever, he reminisces about the golden days of his youth when South Wales still prospered, when coal dust had not yet blackened the valley. Drawn simply and lovingly, with a crisp Welsh humor, Llewellyn’s characters fight, love, laugh, and cry, creating an indelible portrait of a people. Richard Llewellyn (1906–1983), a Welsh novelist, was born in Hendon, England, in the county of Middlesex.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The rhythm of life... the pattern of words...
- De Blue en 04-16-13
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Ava's Man
- De: Rick Bragg
- Narrado por: Rick Bragg
- Duración: 5 h y 26 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 663
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 462
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 459
With the same emotional generosity and effortlessly compelling storytelling that made All Over But the Shoutin’ a beloved bestseller, Rick Bragg continues his personal history of the Deep South. This time he’s writing about his grandfather Charlie Bundrum, a man who died before Bragg was born but left an indelible imprint on the people who loved him. Drawing on their memories, Bragg reconstructs the life of an unlettered roofer who kept food on his family’s table through the worst of the Great Depression
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5 out of 5 stars
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Powerful Story of Family
- De Bobbie-Jo en 09-17-03
De: Rick Bragg
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Chasing the North Star
- De: Robert Morgan
- Narrado por: Kevin R. Free, Carra Patterson
- Duración: 10 h y 21 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 31
On a moonless night in the spring of 1851, a young slave makes a bid for freedom with only the North Star to guide him. Best-selling novelist and historian Robert Morgan returns with a stunning new work of historical fiction.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not what we thought
- De bds en 05-07-19
De: Robert Morgan
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The Plague of Doves
- De: Louise Erdrich
- Narrado por: Peter Francis James, Kathleen McInerney
- Duración: 11 h y 3 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 521
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 371
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 369
The unsolved murder of a farm family haunts the small, white, off-reservation town of Pluto, North Dakota. The vengeance exacted for this crime and the subsequent distortions of truth transform the lives of Ojibwe living on the nearby reservation and shape the passions of both communities for the next generation.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Avoid this Plague
- De Andre en 05-16-08
De: Louise Erdrich
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I Will Send Rain
- A Novel
- De: Rae Meadows
- Narrado por: Emily Sutton-Smith
- Duración: 8 h y 3 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 46
Annie Bell can't escape the dust. It's in her hair, covering the windowsills, coating the animals in the barn, and in the corners of her children's dry, cracked lips. It's 1934, and the Bell farm in Mulehead, Oklahoma, is struggling as the earliest storms of the Dust Bowl descend. The wheat harvests are drying out, and people are packing up their belongings as storms lay waste to the Great Plains.
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1 out of 5 stars
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While I really disliked this book...
- De NMwritergal en 08-17-16
De: Rae Meadows
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The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
- De: Eudora Welty
- Narrado por: Barbara Rosenblat, Jessica Almasy, Victor Bevine, y otros
- Duración: 32 h y 18 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 231
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 193
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 185
This complete collection includes all of the published stories of Eudora Welty. There are 41 stories in all, including those in the earlier collections A Curtain of Green, The Wide Net, The Golden Apples, and The Bride of the Innisfallen, as well as previously uncollected stories.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Too Good For Audio
- De Yennta en 06-18-12
De: Eudora Welty
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My Name Is Resolute
- De: Nancy E. Turner
- Narrado por: Mhairi Morrison
- Duración: 25 h y 55 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 289
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 257
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 257
The year is 1729, and Resolute Talbot and her siblings are captured by pirates, taken from their family in Jamaica and brought to the New World. Resolute and her sister are sold into slavery in colonial New England and taught the trade of spinning and weaving. When Resolute finds herself alone in Lexington, Massachusetts, she struggles to find her way in a society that is quick to judge a young woman without a family. As the seeds of rebellion against England grow, Resolute is torn between following the rules and breaking free.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A life well lived!
- De Anonymous User en 06-20-23
De: Nancy E. Turner
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Sula
- De: Toni Morrison
- Narrado por: Toni Morrison
- Duración: 5 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,120
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,742
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,738
Nel and Sula's devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies and the burden of a dreadful secret. It endures even after Nel has grown up to be a pillar of the black community and Sula has become a pariah. But their friendship ends in an unforgivable betrayal—or does it end? Terrifying, comic, ribald and tragic, Sula is a work that overflows with life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good against evil and a riotous story to boot
- De Karen en 04-11-11
De: Toni Morrison
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The Known World
- De: Edward P. Jones
- Narrado por: Kevin Free
- Duración: 14 h y 18 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 939
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 507
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 507
Henry Townsend, a black farmer, bootmaker, and former slave, has a fondness for Paradise Lost and an unusual mentor, William Robbins, perhaps the most powerful white man in antebellum Virginia's Manchester County. Under Robbins's tutelage, Henry becomes proprietor of his own plantation, as well as of his own slaves. When he dies, his widow Caldonia succumbs to profound grief, and things begin to fall apart.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A meandering audiobook...
- De Daniel en 09-03-04
De: Edward P. Jones
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Sounder
- De: William H. Armstrong
- Narrado por: Avery Brooks
- Duración: 2 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 376
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 301
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When the boy awakens one morning to a sweet-smelling ham on the table, it seems like a blessing. But soon, the sheriff and his deputies come to the house and take the boy's father away in handcuffs. Suddenly the boy must grow up fast in a world that isn't fair, keeping hope alive through the love he has for his father's faithful dog, Sounder. Listeners who enjoy timeless dog stories such as Old Yeller and Where the Red Fern Grows will find much to love in Sounder, even as they listen through tears at times.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of my favorite childhood reads
- De Nena en 02-21-08
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The Long Valley
- De: John Steinbeck, John H. Timmerman - introduction
- Narrado por: Holter Graham
- Duración: 8 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 231
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 201
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 199
A Penguin Classic. First published in 1938, this volume of stories collected with the encouragement of his longtime editor Pascal Covici serves as a wonderful introduction to the work of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck. Set in the beautiful Salinas Valley of California, where simple people farm the land and struggle to find a place for themselves in the world, these stories reflect Steinbeck’s characteristic interests: The tensions between town and country, laborers and owners, past and present.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Generally Good Stories, Some are Great
- De Michael en 06-18-13
De: John Steinbeck, y otros
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The Trees
- Awakening Land Series, Book 1
- De: Conrad Richter
- Narrado por: Danny Campbell
- Duración: 7 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 67
The Trees is the story of an American family in the wilderness - a family that "followed the woods as some families follow the sea." The time is the end of the 18th century, the wilderness is the land west of the Alleghenies and north of the Ohio River. But principally, The Trees is the story of a girl named Sayward, eldest daughter of Worth and Jary Luckett, raised in the forest far from the rest of humankind, yet growing to realize that the way of the hunter must cede to the way of the tiller of soil.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A taste of early frontier life
- De dkh5 en 09-11-21
De: Conrad Richter
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Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories
- De: Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Narrado por: Theodore Bikel
- Duración: 2 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 51
These 4 stories are infused with the wit and imagination, the humor and wisdom, that characterizes all of Isaac Bashevis Singer's work. Theodore Bikel reads these wise and funny tales in classic Yiddish storyteller cadence, injecting special warmth and resonance. The tales include "Gimpel the Fool," "Esther Kreindel the Second," "The Spinoza of Market Street," and "The Black Wedding."
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incredible narration
- De Frances en 01-10-19
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The Nick Adams Stories
- De: Ernest Hemingway
- Narrado por: Stacy Keach
- Duración: 7 h y 10 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 291
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 232
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 230
"Of the place where he had been a boy he had written well enough. As well as he could then." So thought a dying writer in an early version of The Snows of Kilimanjaro. The writer was, of course, Ernest Hemingway. The place was the Michigan of his boyhood, where he remembered himself as Nick Adams. The now-famous "Nick Adams" stories show a memorable character growing from child to adolescent to soldier, veteran, writer, and parent - a sequence closely paralleling the events of Hemingway's life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Let Nick Adams introduce you to Ernest Hemingway
- De Paul en 04-04-12
De: Ernest Hemingway
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Kind One
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Total3 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución5 out of 5 stars
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- Jessa
- 03-11-15
Didn't seem well concluded...
The book story line is right up my alley, but the ending didn't seem to be very satisfying. I was kind of hoping the end would bring the different perspectives together and be a good summary-not at all what you get.
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