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A People's History of Heaven

by Mathangi Subramanian

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Joyce W. (Rochester, MN)

An enjoyable read
This book surprised me. The total lack of sentence structure and correct punctuation was very effective but hard to get used to, and this is the reason I did not give it 5 stars. I have several friends who would stop reading this book because of this feature. I am very glad I continued reading because it kept getting better and I really felt good by the time I reached the end. The family that these girls and their mothers have created is amazing and heartwarming. They are strong, resilient and joyful. They strive for education and finding a good man (sad there are so few) and create a sisterhood to survive the harshness of the reality they live in. The ending gives you hope for their future. This will be a good book club book.

Lee M. (Huntington Woods, MO)

A Mighty Race
Snippets of unconditional love between five girls. Well written, some irony and descriptions of real poverty. Somehow I expected more. I guess I expected to be fired up and looking for ways to help these brave women, and yet I was just quietly and smartly proud of my race. A good investment of reading time.

Cheryl W. (Crosby, MN)

Over descriptive
The story was a little syrupy and not every object needs to be defined by an analogy. I could not get past trying to keep track of 5 girls and their mothers. This is another story like the "Beautiful Forevers".

Joane W. (Berlin, MD)

A People's History of Heaven
The book has positive and negative attributes. In the positive side it showed how a group of girls living in extreme poverty in a country where the goernment was destroying their unlivable homes attempted to salvage and take back what was theirs. The negative aspect was the depressing poverty of their country. What made it a little harder to read were many of the foreign words.

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