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This was my least-favorite Oprah pick ever! I'm sorry to say that I didn't enjoy much out of it except the fact that now I know that Cameroon is a country in Africa and where it's located. The writing in the book wasn't horrible, it's just that the plot was really disjointed. I liked the first quarter pretty well. But then it just got long and uninteresting to me. I didn't feel like much really resolved at the end although the author certainly tried for it. There were piecings of Cameroonian cul
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