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Pearl Author: "On Christmas night, 1998, Maria Meyers - a New York single mother with a radical past - receives a call from the State Department: her daughter, Pearl, who is studying abroad at Trinity College, Dublin, has chained herself to the flagpole outside the American embassy and has not eaten in six weeks. Pearl has written a statement saying that her ... more »
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2 member(s) found this review helpful.
Interesting concept: Girl goes on hunger strike in Ireland to support the peace processes and her unsuspecting mother and father-like figure physically travel to save her while also traveling back in time in their minds to understand how this happened. My problem with the book was the narrator: an offscreen voice which pulled me out of the story and distracted me.
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This novel takes you by surprise. You get a deep understanding of these charachters and see the world from thir eyes. A great read. It will make you want to call your mom(if you can).
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Mary Gordon writes of a coming of age and the problems of maturing with a mother daughter relationship. It takes place in Ireland and you can practically smell the streets. Pearl gets involved in an issue that seems to not concern her at first glance.
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