That's Not How It Happened A Novel

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That's Not How It Happened A NovelBy: Craig Thomas Published by Harlequin Enterprises ULC, 2025 11 04 "Funny and poignant Craig Thomas is a big hearted, empathetic writer who knows his characters inside and out." Tom Perrotta, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Mrs. Fletcher and The Leftovers "Funny, real and moving all at once[A] wonderful, heartfelt debut." Lin Manuel Miranda, Tony Award Winning creator of Broadway's Hamilton From the Emmy nominated co creator and

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When you get to the end, you wonder how Kaminsky worked his wondrous magic, how it's possible to think and write poetry like that. The poem is a story about Vasenka, a mythical town somewhere in the Ukraine, occupied by the Soviet army during an unspecified period of time. It is an allegory of the cruelty of occupation, the futility of the resistance of a few, and the deafness of the silent majority, a deafness that courageously resists the occupation and a deafness that hardens the heart and ignores the evil surrounding them. It could have happened anywhere anytime. The occupiers could have been Nazis, Ottoman Turks, American, English, or Spanish. The poetry is piercingly sharp, visionary, breathless and the metaphors are the likes of which you've never heard before, lines like “the sound we do not hear lifts the gulls off the water,” “Our hearing doesn't weaken, but something silent in us strengthens,” or “In these avenues, deafness is our only barricade.” This is drop-dead beautiful poetry.

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Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2019

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ARTHUR KLEIN

Phoenix, US

★★★★★ 5

Haunting Humanity lurks in war’s reactions.

Format: Kindle

The poem moves efficiently through the myriad experiences that result from deadly conflict with a nameless and menacing enemy. I kept thinking I was reading a rendering of Kafka with the haunting glimpses of the horror of permanent victim hood. Now I must study the Deaf Republic and hope for understanding.

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Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2025

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Catherine

Port Orchard, US

★★★★★ 5

Beautifully written.

Format: Paperback

I read this book in one sitting and discovered that tears are included with purchase. Story is broken up into acts, like a play, and is told completely in verse. Sign language images accompany several of the poems.

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Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2025

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A M Wells

Port Orchard, US

★★★★★ 5

What is silence? Something of the sky in us.

Format: Paperback

Maybe the best poetry collection I've ever read. I rarely enjoy an entire collection. I usually like individual poems or even individual lines within a poem. Deaf Republic is a masterpiece. If I ever meet Ilya Kaminsky in real life, I might cry.

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Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2023