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From Stephen Elliott
Certainly other readers have had this experience: you discover a book that is thrilling in its truth about the world, a book that captures your imagination so completely that you actually feel scared by the thought you might have never held this book in your hands; that you might have missed it completely. lie Ruby’s The Salt God’s Daughter is that kind of book.
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In the mid-1990s I lived in Chicago and became impressed by the vibrant art scene there. New galleries were popping up all over River North, Bucktown, and Wicker Park. Chicago’s emerging visual artists, it was often said, had set themselves apart from their predecessors partly due to their relentless love for the absurd.
1. If he is Catholic he will feel guilty. If he is Protestant he will feel guilty for not feeling guilty. If he is Jewish he will call his mother from bed.
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