Books by Kim Barnes
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review 1: I read this book, found in UK bookstores Waterstones, while I myself was an expat in Scotland. Being from a small town outside of Houston, where many people over the years have taken expat jobs in the oil/gas industry in Saudi and elsewhere, I found that the author was spot-on i...
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review 1: I'm proud to have finished this book since it was a struggle to get through the slow moving story. I was intrigued at the beginning but the parts that had potential (Ruthie's death, Lucky in the theater, Abdullah confessing his love, Gin's photography) were totally glazed over an...
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review 1: It isn't easy for an author to make me cry even once, but Kim Barnes as done it again in this book from 2008. In 1960, fresh out of medical school, Thomas Delacotte takes his wife and love of his life, Helen to a hardscrabble property he has bought sight unseen in Idaho. Inspired...