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• 'Severance' Is A Sardonic Wake-Up Call For All Of Us Stuck In Routine
  Ling Ma's Severance is an unusual apocalyptic novel, says critic Maureen Corrigan. Satiric, playful and scary, it lends assurance that humor will linger even as the world comes to an end. [Tue, Aug. 21]

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• Dispatches From A 'Dopesick' America
  Author Beth Macy details opioids' odyssey from medicine to scourge, in her book about young heroin users, their long-suffering parents, doctors, drug company executives, cops, judges and drug dealers. [Tue, Aug. 21]

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• 'Sight' Is A Penetrating Vision Of Motherhood, Science And More
  Jessie Greengrass' novel is packed with shimmering sentences and poetic paragraphs from a narrator who's never content to drift along, but must probe "the convoluted crenellations of the mind." [Tue, Aug. 21]

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• 'Coyote Doggirl' Is A Childlike Western With Hidden Depths
  Artist Lisa Hanawalt creates kids' stories for grownups, both on TV — she's the production designer for BoJack Horseman — and in her new book Coyote Doggirl, a candy-colored Western saga. [Tue, Aug. 21]

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• Witty, Imaginative, Risky And Relentless — 'Flights' Soars
  Olga Tokarczuk's book won the 2018 Man Booker International Prize. Critic John Powers says the hard-to-classify work is positively exploding with maps, remembrances, riffs, history and more. [Mon, Aug. 20]

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