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  "thread": {
    "id": 5089,
    "subject": "REC: THE BONESETTER'S DAUGHTER by Amy Tan",
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    "first": "2008-07-05T22:41:56+00:00",
    "last": "2008-07-05T22:41:56+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<486FF8B4.2040804@io.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Jeff Wilson",
        "address": "jwilson at io.com"
      },
      "date": "2008-07-05T22:41:56+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) REC: THE BONESETTER'S DAUGHTER by Amy Tan",
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          "text": "\tTHE BONESETTER'S DAUGHTER by Amy Tan\n\n\tI just realized that this book is like a fully worked out example of a \nGene Wolfe puzzle story, only with a revealing resolution. It's got \nmythologizing, de-mythologizing, nested stories, unreliable narrators, \nmultiple autobiographies, real science, pseudoscience, superscience, \nmagic, ghosts, psychic powers, journeys of transformation, colonialism, \nwar, syncretism, the cruel lives of children, metafiction, and even some \nplain old drama, sex, and violence. Even a little torture and a hint of \nexecution!\n\tIn particular, the successive stories are an example of fictional \nrelaxation in the 5HC sense, and contributed more to my understanding as \na western reader of the general eastern and specifically Chinese \nperspective than everything else I've read, watched, or experienced.\n\tHighly recommended!"
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          "text": "Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com\n< http://www.io.com/~jwilson >"
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