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Across the road from where she’s parked, aspens tumble down the basin toward Fish Lake, where five years earlier a Chinese refugee engineer took his three daughters camping on the way to visiting Yellowstone.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
careworn.
Emily St. John Mandel • Sea of Tranquility: A novel
Michele Smith
@mishale
onerous
Hillary Jordan • Anonymous Sex
The mother collected unemployment but her full-time occupation was self-pity.
Smith Henderson • Fourth of July Creek: A Novel
Eventually, by the late 1960s, she’d been rejected by every major publisher, from Harper & Row to Houghton Mifflin to Random House and Pantheon. But she had made progress, too. She sold a short story, called “The Flying Munchgins,” to a children’s magazine, about a little boy named Leonard who discovers a society of mysterious creatures—the Mun
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boxes in the States: Tastee
Paul Theroux • Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China
Michelle Kweder
@michellekweder