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    Summary of Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way | Conversation Starters
    Summary of Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way | Conversation Starters
    Summary of Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way | Conversation Starters
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    Summary of Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way | Conversation Starters

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    Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way by Shauna Niequist | Conversation Starters


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    Release dateJun 17, 2019
    Summary of Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way | Conversation Starters

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      ITTERSWEET, WRITTEN BY MIRANDA BEVERLY-Whittemore, is a cinematic novel in which the content is richly emblazoned with gothic twists and turns of gripping plots and themes, reminiscent of the popular 1970s Mexican Telenovella Los ricostambiénlloran (The rich also cry). The novel offers the reader more than just a cursory peep into the dark, topsy-turvy moral nooks and crannies of the filthy rich. In daring to expose the Achilles heel seemingly inherent in the moral fiber of the blue-blooded, the author rather prods the reader into empathizing with their humanity, however grotesque. Mabel, the star protagonist, evoking thematic semblances between the battle of good and evil in John Milton’s Paradise Lost, must judge herself before ascribing to herself the attainment of the moral high ground from which to judge the Winslows. This does not prove easy, and she soon caves into accepting their oddities as a brutal fact of life, leading to the entanglement of her fate forever with that of the Winslows when she marries Ev’s brother,

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