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big-hearted memoir that the Washington Post calls "comedic gold

Chang herself marched

Gifts Dilys Award Nominee (2010) ministers and dictators/noblemen/the bored rich/sportsmen/dissatisfiedIn this beautifully crafted novel, the first of the Annals of the Western Shore trilogy, Ursula K. Le Guin writes of the proud cruelty of power, of how hard it is to grow up, and of how much harder still it is to find, in the world's darkness, gifts of light. Scattered among poor, desolate farms, the clans of the Uplands possess gifts. Wondrous the abilitywith a glance, a gesture, a wordto summon animals, bring forth fire, move the land. Fearsome They