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How To Escape From A Leper Colony (2010)

by Tiphanie Yanique(Favorite Author)

3.91 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

155597550X (ISBN13: 9781555975500)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Graywolf Press

review 1: These characters are sharply drawn; they fit uneasily into their lives, and especially their relationships with others. Age, race, class, confuse and mystify. Not all the stories live up to the characters in them, but the writing is consistently satisfying. "The International House of Coffins", "Kill the Rabbits", and the title story stand out, both for the complex and troubled worlds they create and the castaways who wander through them.
review 2: Won this in the first reads giveaway. I am not going to lie. I was a little disappointed with this book. I enjoyed the last two stories, but it doesn't shed a very good light on the values of the people who live in the area she writes about. I have been to St. Thomas and it is a beautiful place, although the book ... moremakes it look like it is full of arsonists, robbers, cheaters, and slutty women. Would have liked to have seen at least one happy ending. less

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