from generation to generation (Michiko Kakutani, the New York Times ). A few, like Pearl K. Bell in the Wall Street Journal , find a surfeit of sweetly obedient docility in the novel and say parts are perilously at the edge of sentimentality.
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They complained that the novel lacked any emotions.
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