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The Girl Who Never Read Noam Chomsky
Jana Casale
★★★★★· Published 2018· 367 pages· read 2018
A debut that follows one woman's inner life across the years — all the small compromises and quiet ambitions. Funnier and sneakier than the title suggests.
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A young expat couple in Berlin with the perfectly curated life and a creeping sense that none of it means anything. Short and quietly devastating.
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A magic phone lets a woman call her husband in the past, back when things were good. Rowell for grownups, and lovely.