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==General fiction==
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|author=Jon Bauer
|title=Rocks in the Belly
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Jon Bauer's first novel, ''Rocks in the Belly'', is an emotional journey. The narrator is a man in his late 20s who has returned from Canada to visit his mother who has cancer of the brain. The narrator himself is emotionally damaged from the relationship that he had with his mother from childhood when she and her husband fostered children and, interspersed with the narrative, is the voice of narrator at eight years old and in particular telling the experience of one foster boy, Robert, who we know from early on in the book suffered a significant tragedy while in their care. What that event was will be revealed in due course, but it is clear that the young boy suffered hugely from jealousy of his mother's love for these foster children.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846688450</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Aifric Campbell
