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Jenny Slate has written an amazingly creative and honest book that touches on life's woes, the ups and downs of her career, her relationships, and grappling with who she is as a human being.
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Emotionally heavy, artfully told, and timely. I hope that you take any compassion you feel for these characters & redirect it towards others you encounter, strangers who could have roots just as rough, tangled, distressing, and difficult as all the characters you meet on the journey to reach American dirt.
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Emily Porter found the cover of Monique Truong's new book irresistible, and that it contained "the type of writing that makes you want to skip all of your responsibilities in order to ravish the pages until you take in every word."
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Emily Porter examines the human and supernatural relationships that compel the book's characters to endure even in the midst of horrific events, providing an emotional urgency that make Alice Hoffman's new novel a "definite must read."
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