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Repeat After Me (2009)

by Rachel DeWoskin(Favorite Author)

3.72 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1590202228 (ISBN13: 9781590202227)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Overlook Hardcover

review 1: This was recommended to me by someone I trust, and I see exactly why she recommended it, and maybe I just picked it up at the wrong time, but I didn't get through it before I had to return it to the library. I kept picking up other books instead, or writing song lyrics instead, or daydreaming instead. I don't know if the plot was too slow for me, or I didn't like the characters, or the prose just wasn't up my alley, or if the first person was getting to me (I have an automatic put-it-down reaction to first person, even though I've read a ton of great books in the first person), and I may try it again someday, but in the meantime, meh. I'd love to hear what other people think of it, though!
review 2: The protagonist is a 20's woman in New York who left college a... morefter having a psychological breakdown. The chapters alternate between her life in New York where she is teaching English to foreigners and twelve years later in Beijing where she has relocated and lives with the daughter. The daughter is the product of her doomed relationship with an troubled but compelling Chinese dissident who was her student in New York. None of this is giving away the plot, which is unusual but it is really it is the intelligence and emotionally honesty of the writing that makes this book so great. less

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