Some malady
Ruma Chopra Ruma Chopra

Some malady

…Penny puts her faith in Rosa (the duck), poems, and choices towards good.

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Generations
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Generations

…sings of their shadows and of her own truths of womanhood in her beautiful Blues voice.

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Caught
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Caught

We finish the novel shaken, wondering why we did not choose an earlier escape.

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Purposeful matches
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Purposeful matches

…the intellectual and social ambitions of women who defy the conformist sensibility of a pre-railroad provincial town.

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Known sins
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Known sins

Of his strict teachings, what did his followers actually accept?  

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Cousinship
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Cousinship

Inspector Bucket’s lightness and calm and haste we cannot forget.

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Iconoclast
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Iconoclast

...did not mistake cultural influence for economic and political heft.

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Self-consequence
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Self-consequence

…we hear expressed the desire for gentility, annuities, attachment, matrimony.

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For always
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For always

…there is heady intimacy, characteristic wryness – and Dresden.

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Life itself
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Life itself

Saints: people who behave decently in a strikingly indecent society.

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Read Dickens again
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Read Dickens again

…decisions matter and we are pulled into the fraught consequences of choices avoided.

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