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...itself.”If all of Haruko’s problems, triumphs,and struggles can be so easilyreduced to capricious feminine nature,then why tell her story in the first place?What’s interesting about a person whosubmits meekly to biological weakness?There is something undeniably compellingabout a person grappling with herindividual identity, but Schwartz missesit in this novel. What you’ll remember isnot Haruko’s struggle, but how quicklyyou forgot it.—Staff writer Jillian J. Goodman can bereached at jjgoodm@fas.harvard.edu...
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