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The Air We Breathe
The Air We Breathe
Author: Andrea Barrett
In the fall of 1916, America prepares for war -- but in the community of Tamarack Lake, the focus is on the sick. Wealthy tubercular patients live in private cure cottages; charity patients, mainly immigrants, fill the large public sanatorium. Prisoners of routine, they take solace in gossip, rumor, and -- sometimes -- secret attachments. — But w...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780393333077
ISBN-10: 0393333078
Publication Date: 10/6/2008
Pages: 320
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3.5 stars, based on 13 ratings
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio CD
Members Wishing: 0
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Helpful Score: 3
This isn't my typical type of book at all. But I work with a facility that once used to be a TB retreat in PA so the summary caught my attention.

I listened to this as a book on CD, again, because it wasn't my normal type of story to choose.

I was fascinated with the story though, and enjoyed it more than I expected to. However, my only complaint is that the ending was a bit disappointing. There was no clear conclusions made by the end and it was sort of left hanging. None of the characters seemed to have a clear cut ending written.

Leo was a very endearing character and you get pulled into his story and the troubles that follow him and the unfairness of the way things were back then.
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I read about 80 pages and put the book down, could not get through it. a bit anti-climatic


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