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(More customer reviews)The Chinchilla Farm is one of my favorite books and I'm sorry to see that it's out of print. It is the story of a Mormon woman who, when her marriage to a fellow Mormon fails, travels to California to seek a new life. It's a realistic novel that has shades of the autobiographical about it, (the author is herself a Mormon who lives in California.) The strongest point of the book is its beautiful, clear unsentimental prose and its unflinching portrayal of life in a hard and uncaring city. Ms. Freeman is particularly sympathetic to people living at the fringes of society; the homeless, mentally ill, alcoholics and immigrants. In her compassionate yet unsparing representation of these characters she is almost Dickensian. The novel also provides a fascinating insight into growing up in Salt Lake City as a Mormon. Although the novel is sometimes bleak in its realism its final message is one of redemption and I found the book to be overall uplifting. Structurally my only criticism is that the ending is a little rushed, but the high quality of the prose more than makes up for that.
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