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Aubrey

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Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
by Z. Z. Packer
Staff Pick
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by ZZ Packer
Staff Pick
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by Georgia Byng
Staff Pick
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The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break
by Steven Sherrill
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The Minotaur, M, a fantastical and once fearsome beast from Greek mythology, is now reduced to a mundane existence in the gritty South. Yet even M, the most displaced of creatures, finds himself chancing at hope for happiness of a crude sort. Author... (read more)

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Grass Roof, Tin Roof
by Dao Strom
Staff Pick
This novel follows Tran, a Vietnamese woman, from her days of working for a politically charged newspaper in Saigon in the '70s to her family life in California and on into her children's lives. A precise story about the nature of belonging. I loved it.... (read more)

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