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Michael Lowenthal has written a big-hearted and wise book about familial love in all its richness and complexity.
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Dani Shapiro
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: April 10
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There is no end to the promotion. There is no end to the possibilities. You can continue to promote a book for years, literally.
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I had spent my childhood and the better part of my early adulthood trying to understand my mother. She had been an extraordinarily difficult person, spiteful and full of rage, with a temper that could flare, seemingly out of nowhere, scorching everything and everyone who got in its way. [pp. 40-41]
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