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The natural world is the rock on which these stories are built, and its overbearing presence informs every sentence.
Ann Patchett • These Precious Days: Essays
tenuous
Margaret Atwood • The Robber Bride
We still have need of the old ways and knowledge.’
Hannah Kent • The Good People
undaunted. But at his layover in Paris he meets his match: a surprise
Andrew Sean Greer • Less (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): A Novel (The Arthur Less Books Book 1)
fugacious
Anna Burns • Milkman
expurgated
Chang-rae Lee • My Year Abroad: A Novel
The cosmopolitan ethic that emerges from the colonized Trinidadian’s embattled existence — ironic style, tolerance, a refusal to take the eminent at their own estimation — now delivers a withering judgment on the masked intolerance and posed piety of the supposedly ‘advanced’ metropolitan world.