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It’s a banner time for serious readers of contemporary American literature, for students of Southern literature, and for anyone who senses a relationship between a reading experience and the tragic
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The world and our perception is no longer reliable as previously dark undercurrents bubble up to the surface and sweep away all that just a few pages earlier seemed normal.
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