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Josh English
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Text Colliding with Text: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Much of the novel questions what constitutes a life: If it’s reduced or subverted or is itself a simulation, is it still worth living?
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A Gentle Touch: Annie Hartnett’s Unlikely Animals
What’s special about Hartnett’s chorus of the dead, though, is that they stress the tension between overlapping realities.
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Haunted by Hoax: Paul Griner’s The Book of Otto and Liam
But Griner is too skilled a realist to allow The Book of Otto and Liam to become a simple revenge story.