Pretty good collection of essays on moving, on loss, on memory, on place, and their effect on one another. Some essays were extremely moving and almost articulated exactly my feelings about my own relocations and my attitudes towards them; all were written beautifully. However, I remember feeling tired of these themes by the end of the book. The essays began to feel repetitive. Now, a few days after finishing the book, I lost much of the complexity of feelings I originally had toward the essays and I'm only left with the recollection of its enormously successful writing that slowly began to hammer out its ideas to death toward the end. ( )

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