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Book Review of The Witch of Portobello

The Witch of Portobello
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Athena, abandoned as a child, seeks her birth mother: a Romanian gypsy. In the vein of The Alchemist, this is another of is pseudo-religious psychological novels. He will bring you deeply into the realm of the "Great Mother", of the parochialism of racial and spiritual bias, and of the fanaticism of radical minorities.