"Half a century ago, during the rainy season, when I was seven years old, my father and I reached the Sea. It was evening and the buildings were coloured glass against the night. I remember that we disembarked into water, we crossed the sand, we entered a pale door of the sea."

#FirstSentences of Madeleine Thien's *The Book of Records*

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Started this last night. Will use this for any #ReadingNotes. So very excited to read this one.

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