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There Is No Long Distance Now

In these forty life-altering, life-affirming, and extremely short short stories, the award-winning poet Naomi Shihab Nye proposes that no matter how great the divide between friends, siblings, life and death, classmates, enemies, happiness and misery, war and peace, breakfast and lunch, parent and child, country and city, there is, in fact, no long distance. Not anymore.

Reviewer: Tatiana

Review: Nov 17, 2011

Night Owl Book Review for There Is No Long Distance Now

Genre(s): Contemporary, YA / Teen, Shorts

"There Is No Long Distance Now" is a collection of, as the book's subtitle points out, very short stories. No longer than 1000 words or 5 pages each, these stories are rich in language, evocative, lyrical, which can be easily explained by the fact the Naomi Shihab Nye is an acclaimed, National Book Award nominated poet. These vignettes capture those seemingly small moments and experiences in life that in retr

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