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Absolutely and Forever

by Rose Tremain

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Beware of Pity (Pushkin Press Classics)

by Stefan Zweig

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Small Worlds by Caleb Azumah Nelson

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Over the past few years, we’ve both watched youth centres and hair shops and other cafes close. We all knew that this might happen. This phenomenon spreading like a virus, like contagion, that asks us to stop considering our people and ...more

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“We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors went together. We knew that the girls were our twins, that we all existed in space like animals with identical skins, and that they knew everything about us though we couldn’t fathom them at all. We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

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