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Both beautiful and baffling, Ondaatje's most recent novel (after 2000'sAnil's Ghost ) opens with the portrait of a complex family suddenly imploding in the Northern California wilderness. Anna and Claire have been raised as sisters by Anna's father (both mothers died in childbirth), with a neighbor boy named Coop also in attendance, his family having been battered to death by a hired hand. Anna and Claire both have feeli...Log In or Sign Up to Read More