A Blind Corner windy city magicFrom the award winning author of Mrs. and The Fundamentals of Play comes a brilliant and biting short story collection about pride, privilege, and our nagging need to belong. In an era of hot takes and easy generalizations, this collection reclaims the absurdities and paradoxes of life as it is actually lived from the American fantasy of niceness. In Macys world, human desires and fatal blind spots slam headlong into convenient, social media driven
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In an engrossing novel about fate
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Babylonians
For much of her life—like many Westerners—most of what Pamela Olson knew of the Middle East was informed by headlines and stereotypes
nothing will take precedence over winning her back
Cott follows four who pursued global news -- from contested Palestine to revolutionary China
And a dog named Laika was the very first creature to orbit the Earth
the wildlife crisis has received scant attention and support
From accidentally harboring a teen fugitive to being poisoned while tripping on LSD in the Mayan ruins
and the struggle of three extraordinary generations of African-American men to forge brutal injustice and shattered promise into a limitless future for their children
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