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• Penelope R

  I have finished it and think it's the best one yet I loved the way the chapters end with a lilt. I loved the two main characters and their relationship. I loved the interweaving of plotlines. I loved that the old ladies were old but still so self-aware. What a great read.

• Anonymous

  Exemplary in her search for the human condition, rising star novelist Bonnie MacDougall smartly lets her prime characters, two attractive young women, 26-year-old Chinle and 27-year-old Mae, tell their own stories while they jointly uncover their family’s hideous mystery, the deaths of six new-born family babies, either at birth or soon after. With Chinle and Mae, every self-realization, social or physical handicap, loss, change in lifestyle, marital status, social and economic threat, every mood, tear shed, smile, and sigh is nailed, investigated, dwelt with, rectified, and/or adjusted to. Bonnie MacDougall has mastered character development. When you finish the last pages of “Those Who Live” and close the cover, you will sense, like Chinle and Mae, a grand catharsis; you have enjoyed and benefited, you have survived and even improved yourself, and you have found life is better, even good. You may say to yourself, “Yes, I am better.” Unless you have always been, are now, and will always be... perfect.

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