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The novel was awarded the 2007 pulitzer prize for fiction, and critics have called it heartbreaking, haunting, and emotionally shattering. The capacity of the human spirit to rise above adversity is gently referenced. This once banned book is the first colonialera vietnamese novel to be. Stupid luck and happenstance is an story by member peabodymartini. A look back to the longago day when the author bought his first resident fishing license in colorado, where the fishing season never ends.
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