I had the sense that, in the hands of a more experienced writer, this would have been the whole story. As it was, this was where the heart of the story lay and it was just a little bit awkward in its telling.

This book reminded me so much of Marge Piercy's "He, She and It." So much. Stories told in two different time frames. One of the stories is about the Warsaw ghetto uprising. The other story is (in fact) speculative or science fiction with some virtual reality overtones, a la Philip Dick or that one Margaret Atwood -- The Handmaid's Tale. Her use of language isn't as striking, although it is beautiful -- she is also a poet. But there are a lot of similarities.

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All meetings end in separation
All acquisition ends in dispersion
All life ends in death
- The Buddha

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Every hundred years, all new people