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Rules for Visiting
Jessica Francis Kane
★★★★· Published 2019· 290 pages· read 2024
A fortysomething university gardener, more comfortable with plants than people, sets out to reconnect in person with four old friends over the course of a year. Funny and quietly wise about friendship in the age of curated online lives.
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