Meg Mason 2022
- What it is
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Tender, with a sting
- Genre
- Literary
- Feels
- Raw Wry Melancholic Tender
Everything below shares at least two of these traits, or sits with it in some reader's stack. Each card tells you why.
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Never Let Me Go
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Lovely, but it stings · sadness on a low heat
Flowers for Algernon
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Lovely, but it stings · it leaves you thinking
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