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Newsletter #240

July 22, 2019

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3 books featured in this issue

Cover of Haunts of the Black Masseur: The Swimmer as Hero

Haunts of the Black Masseur: The Swimmer as Hero

by Charles Sprawson

TRUE Phinney by Post #56

This wonderful and strange book may have launched the sub-genre known awkwardly as the "swimoir," but there is much more swimming than memoir here. You hardly learn more about the author than you do f... (Tom)

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Sock Story

by C.K. Smouha and Eleonora Marton

Phinney by Post Kids #44

Do friends have to stay exactly the same to stay friends? Smouha and Marton take the old lost-sock gag for a new spin (sorry) and wring (sorry!) a surprisingly subtle tale out of a sock who gets separ... (Tom)

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The Salt Path

by Raynor Winn

TRUE

A bad investment causes fifty-year-old Raynor Winn and her husband Moth to lose their family farm and livelihood. Around the same time, Moth is diagnosed with a terminal degenerative illness that leav... (Haley)

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