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Jul 04, 2017
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A re-read - the Teen Book Group at my store is doing a "book you should have read in HS" pick this month (I'd read every book on the shortlist so I was just game to re-read what got picked). This does not feel as revolutionary to me now as an adult, this story about some aimless chump who kills a man (the nameless Arab) during an attack of sunstroke and gets tried for failing to cry at his mother's funeral. I'd forgot that much of the first half is just an accounting of Mersault's days. The cour
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Mirja
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