We Are Called to Rise
2014 • 320 pages
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An immigrant youth struggling to assimilate, a middle-aged housewife with a troubled marriage, a Vegas social worker and a wounded soldier connect with each other and rescue themselves in the wake of an unthinkable incident. A first novel.
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Laura McBride's debut (!!!) novel has touched me so deeply. I want her to write a sequel, a fifteen book series about these characters. I love them all so much, I feel like they are my friends now. I just want to re-read this over and over to stay with these people. Bashkim and Avis and Roberta and Luis... They are written so well, so individually, so thoughtfully.
Also, there's a page that changed the whole book. I stopped reading and gasped and screamed a bit and then jumped around my living room.
Laura McBride, you are a literary genius and I would pay you to write books for me every day.
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