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March Book Club - CLOUD CUCKOO LAND by Anthony Doerr

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The End of the World

"There's a lot in her story that's kind of playing with the literalization of metaphor because if you think about it they're literally flying to a literal paradise in space yep or at least they think they are" "The suffering they're going through I think is unique to each of them like yeah Anna is a woman living in a time where women really didn't have any freedom at all," she says. The book captured that emotion for me in a way that I've never really thought about what that experience must have been like for people that lived, he adds. "[Anna] has less than than most of the women around her also living in a world that I love

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