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Books Discussed

Tina’s Mouth: An Existential Comic Diary by Keshni Kashyap and Mari Araki

Listen, Slowly by Thanhha Lai

The Man With Compound Eyes by Wu Ming-Yi

Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offil

Sophie Calle

Contents May Have Shifted by Pam Houston

The Longshot by Katie Kitamura

Three Girls and Their Brother by Theresa Rebeck

Veronica by Mary Gaitskill

Swing Time by Zadie Smith

Pointe by Brandy Colbert

The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma

Madeleine is Sleeping by Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum

We Show What We Have Learned by Clare Beams

Safe as Houses by Marie-Helene Bertino

Working by Studs Terkel

The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin

The Assistants by Camille Perri

Anywhere But Here by Mona Simpson

White Oleander by Janet Fitch

The Middlesteins by Jami Attenberg

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