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"With the nation's focus on a national health-care policy providing quality medical services to citizens regardless of race, ethnicity, and income level, Ansell's exposé will shock and motivate readers to take a stand on the issue."

- Publisher's Weekly

"This fine book is part personal memoir, part history of religion and always compelling reading. It illustrates yet again the diversity of the human family and the unpredictable paths taken by the quest for faith."

- Scott Turow

"Sparkling dialogue, a richly realized setting, and razor-sharp characterization propel this spirited and immensely appealing novel."

- Duffy Ballard

"Like a Coen Brothers movie, [the novel] skates along between farce and tragedy. This is a fine, dark comedy, fueled by righteous fury and an equally energetic acknowledgment of just how complicated the most ordinary life is."

- Beth Lordan, author of But Come Ye Back

A fictional and humorous look at the Cuban Missile Crisis.

"An engaging and poignant account of forbidden love between a privileged 17-year-old white boy and the daughter of a Zulu servant woman under apartheid in 1970s Durban, South Africa..."

- Publisher's Weekly





   
 
             
                                                     


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