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Cleanness is Garth Greenwell’s second book. The protagonist is a gay expatriate American writer teaching in Bulgaria. The book consists of chapters that are stories …
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The Mountains Sing, the first novel in English by Vietnam-born Nguyen Phan Mai Que Mai, is a family saga woven into the history of Vietnam …
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