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This was a book I discovered through Nancy Pearl's book lust blog. It was a fairly gripping, suspenseful novel about memory, identity, language, family secrets, and the reasons we stay and the reasons we leave.

"He was quiet for a second and then said, "It isn't enough to just go ice-skating. Lilia's metaphor, not mine -- she was talking about how she lived. About how you can skate over the surface of the world for your entire life, visiting, leaving, without ever really falling through. But you can't do that, it isn't good enough. You have to be able to fall through. You have to be able to sink, to immerse yourself. You can't just skate over the surface and visit and leave."