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This affectionate follow-up to Lewycka's debut novel (about a Ukrainian family assimilating to contemporary Britain) plays out similar themes of immigrant struggle on a broader scale. A cast of itinerant characters realize that picking strawberries in Kent is more lucrative than white-collar jobs in their homelands, and narrate their journeys in the spirit of Chaucer's pilgrims. Among them are a domineering Polish woman and her mild-mannered niece; a seventeenyear-old Malawian whose ...