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In Between Days

September 5, 2012

in between days

He looks out the window to his left and notices a small row of brown stucco houses, all old and somewhat disheveled, and realizes then, with something like panic, with something like fear, that he ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, contemporary life, family, Knopf

The Darlings

July 14, 2012

darlings

  Typically by the time Sol was pitching an exit strategy, the client was already so far in the woods that they had lost sight of any ambient light long ago. Sol’s job was to lead them out of ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: contemporary life, debut, family, literary, Manhattan, Pamela Dorman Books

The Submission by Amy Waldman

July 13, 2012

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  An anonymous competition to design the 9/11 memorial in NYC. A panel of 13 judges including the widow of a man who died in one of the towers. A winner who turns out to be a Muslim. With ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, contemporary life, debut, Farrar Straus Giroux, Manhattan, social issues

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