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"The author writes about her family growing up in East New Orleans, a large area east of the French Quarter built on marshland. What was once a thriving neighborhood slowly devolved into an industrial zone vulnerable to flooding, a direct conseque..." Permalink

"The beauty of this book is the seamless interweaving of the living and the dead. It is a story that takes place in the Old West – the draw of the new frontier, hard lives, strong women, and the eternal bond between a camel and his cameleer. Scar..." Permalink

"The stories within Exhalation were thought provoking and had a theme in common - collective humanity and perhaps what it means to be human. I had to take a break between stories to contemplate the meaning of what I had just read and how it might ..." Permalink

"I appreciated the perspective of the book, written by a female scientist that was used to being told “no” because she was a girl and yet she always dreamed big to have her own research lab some day. When she reached that dream, she still had to o..." Permalink