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Monday, May 9, 2011

Review: Five Quarters of The Orange




Five Quarters of The Orange by Joanne Harris
Genre: Historical Fiction
Pages: 333 (Ereader)

First Lines:
"When my mother died she left the farm to my brother, Cassis, the fortune in the wine cellar to my sister, Reine-Claude, and to me, the youngest, her album and a two-liter jar containing a single black Perigord truffle, large as a tennis ball, suspended in sunflower oil, that, when uncorked, still releases the rich dank perfume of the forest floor.  A fairly unequal distribution of riches, but then Mother was a force of nature, bestowing her favors as she pleased, leaving no insight as to the workings of her peculiar logic.


And as Cassis always said, I was the favorite."

My Rating:


My Review:

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