Books by Francesca Marciano
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review 1: One of those rare short story collections where you have to finish one story and then wait a day or so to process the tale before you move on to the next. Marciano's people are all really interesting, but I didn't care for or about them very much. Maybe that's the inherent proble...
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review 1: Although fiction, this book gave me great insight into the country of Afghanistan, perhaps even more so than Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Sons. For instance, an amazing fact I learned is that real estate in Kabul in much more than in Manhattan, and th...
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review 1: Tried so hard to finish reading this book. Unlike the little train that could i finally stopped two thirds of the way up. I was frustrated by the idea of so many people putting their lives at risk to take pictures of young women who would rather commit suicide than marry men much...