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Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the tigers wife. The novel unfolds in dream like sequences interspersed with conversations she holds with her grandparents. Her debut, the tigers wife, is a haunting look into the power of mythology and shared family legends. A muchhyped debut novel enthralls, exasperates tea obrehts the tigers wife is the uncategorizable and flawed work of an overlyexuberant young writer.
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