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A single year in the life of thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor is the focus of David Mitchell's incandescent new novel. The pedestrian village of Black Swan Green appears terribly ordinary for Jason, but the striking cast of characters he lives amongst, as well as the internal musings of his mind, take the reader to the emotional tumult of a young boy coming of age in Cold War England.