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The Shade Under the Mango Tree
The Shade Under the Mango Tree | Evy Journey
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After two heartbreaking losses, Luna wants adventure. Something and somewhere very different from the affluent, sheltered home in California and Hawaii where she grew up. An adventure in which she can also make some difference. She ends up in place where she gets more than she bargained for.Lucien, a worldly, well-traveled young architect, finds a stranger's journal at a café. He has qualms and pangs of guilt about reading it. But they don't stop him. His decision to go on reading changes his life.Months later, Luna and Lucien meet at a bookstore where Luna works and which Lucien frequents. Fascinated by his stories and adventurous spirit, Luna goes to a rural rice-growing village in a country steeped in an ancient culture and a deadly history. What she finds there defies anything she could have imagined. Will she leave this world unscathed?An epistolary tale of courage, resilience of the human spirit, and the bonds that bring diverse people together.
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Gold, Contemporary Fiction, Global Book Awards. Breaking out of her safe cocoon, Luna steps into a world of ancient culture and deadly history. Worldly young architect Lucien finds a journal at a cafe; reading it changes his life. An epistolary tale of courage, resilience and the bonds bringing diverse people together.

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This could have been a fascinating story if the entire book were written around the current Part 5. Focus on the day-to-day lives of the people in the rural villages of Cambodia would have been very interesting. The emotions in Part 5 - the pain, the anger, the shame, the despair - were raw. This should have been the heart of the book rather than the romance that made up most of the book.