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Hullabaloo In The Guava Orchard

by Kiran Desai

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Hullabaloo In The Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai
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  • First Published:
    May 1998, 209 pages

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    May 1999, 224 pages

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Lane Davids (09/16/06)

Hullabaloo stretches limits
Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard stretches all preconceived notions of sane and insane, holy and mortal with its befuddling characters and wacky town. It was enjoyable after I read it for the third time, but not before. It takes getting used to, but after awhile its rich themes and motifs grow on you until you, too, are laughing and learning along with the strange characters.
kitty (11/02/03)

This book was the coolest! It had tons of funny, imaginitive, and creative scenes and chapters. Just like the review had said. i highly recommend this book to all ages.
Tracy Day (11/02/03)

This book was very traggy and a little boring. it did have some funny parts and scenes, but over all the book wasn't very good (in my opinion). It was very chaotic and hard to keep up with.
Diamond (05/13/03)

Many of the chapters were drawn out, maybe to just fill a page. I don't consider this book to be "a book you can't put down" because I could put it down. The book needed more action to it and needed to not be so chaotic. I'm not saying the whole book wasn't enjoyable because parts of it were. Maybe it just wasn't my type of book.
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