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This is a quietly powerful book that’s withholding, patient, and deeply uninterested in spectacle. McKinley trusts the reader to sit with uncertainty. The prose is clear and unshowy, but never thin. Authority, culture, and power are conveyed through implication and repetition, not exposition.
— Jan 20, 2026 09:38PM
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