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| | The Lake of Dead Languages -- book review |
 | | For the lake has its legend, that of the "three sisters," all of whom, delirious with fever from the flu epidemic of 1918, walked into the lake and there drowned, their souls to be forever transformed to stones, three large boulders, large enough to walk on, that sit on the lake's edge. |
 | | Jane no sooner arrives to teach at the school then she is confronted by a piece of her past literally as a page from an old diary she once kept while attending the school appears mysteriously in a pile of papers she is to grade. |
 | | Olivia's absence of course allows Jane to be alone on the shores of the lake much more often than would otherwise be the case and I could not help but think, after reading of Jane's almost blasé acceptance of her daughter's kidnapping, that this was the true reason the child was taken. |
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