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Newsletter #270

April 13, 2020

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3 books featured in this issue

Cover of Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family

Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family

by Robert Kolker

TRUE

Schizophrenia is among the most ruthless of diseases, suddenly erupting in a life, often in adolescence, and turning it inside out in ways few treatments have been able to solve. That's what happened... (Tom)

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Hurricane Season

by Fernanda Melchor, translated by Sophie Hughes

MADE-UP

Melchor’s English-language debut is a portrait of a Mexican village as unnerving and entrancing as any painting by Bruegel or Bosch. The scene opens on the village's outskirts, its resident Witch foun... (Liz)

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Long-Haired Cat-Boy Cub

by Etgar Keret, illustrated by Aviel Basil

MADE-UP

If you think that Etgar Keret, the Israeli master of oddball tales for grownups, might also be pretty good at writing stories for kids, you would be correct. Here he turns the premise of a distracted... (Tom)

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