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for some reason, i didn't really get into this book until the last third or so. it's about a girl named rose who goes to work for this german family living in new york in 1933. the family, the mitwissers, is completely weird, with lots of kids, a mother who is having some kind of breakdown, and a father who studies a very small religious sect. the family is completely supported by a sporadically present benefactor, james, who is sort of like the real christopher robin in that his father wrote a series of adventures about a bear boy, modelled after his son. i know, it's complicated. but i got really into it at the end, and i thought that rose was a really great character, alienated but strangely involved in everything.
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