Burning the Sea: A Novel

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Summary: Very enjoyable Summer read
Review: Burning the Sea is a refreshing novel without a traditional love story. The mix of politics and personalities made me unable to put it down. The scenery is rich and the story is intellegent and introspective.

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Summary: Beautiful and Wisely Written
Review: Burning the Sea is one of the most beautifully written books I've ever read. The novel drifts back and forth between the internal worlds of two intricately interconnected and riveting characters; determined by and reconciling pasts of sexual, racial and cultural repression. In allowing the reader seamlessly into their minds and logic Sarah Strong gives powerful evidence to larger conditions of world trade, colonialism and globalization and the intricate locus' of power that are prescribed, inherited, navigated, and ultimately internalized in a breadth of personal formations.

Sarah Strong knows how to write from voices whose believability is articulated through her ability to reveal their pain, blind spots, vulnerabilities, and hidden strengths by guiding us into their very human thoughts. This is a wise and perceptive novel, a mystery about two awakening minds and one of the most engaging and intimate books I've ever read...Burning the Sea is the kind of book where I realize how generous the author's act of writing truly is.

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Summary: Excellent
Review: What a great book! I savored every moment of it. Beautifully written, strong characterization, rich with history and cultural and political ideas and information, and at the bottom of it all, a really good story.