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It wasnt the usual novel

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This book is based on a traditional japanese folktale in which a young man or in some versions a childless married couple rescues a crane from a hunter’s trap

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Soon afterward he is or they are visited by a beautiful young woman who is mysteriously vague about her past history

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When she spots them she sadly flies away leaving them forever bereft

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None of the characters speaks in the first person but the styles in which their substories are told are noticeably different

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Amanda’s sections by greatest contrast are very everyday and especially at first snarky to the point of being quite funny the dialogue in her early picnic with rachel and another coworker mei sounds straight out of middle school

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The prose is beautiful and sincere and the story is optimistic even in its sarcasm

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It reads like the book version of sculptures by su blackwell the cover artist