Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 1941
- What it is
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A good honest cry · slow and sad, in the good way
- Genre
- Classics Crime Literary
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Seize the Day (Penguin Classics)
Saul Bellow · 1956
Slow and sad, in the good way · a small story, told up close
Fine Balance
Rohinton Mistry · 1995
Sadness on a low heat · it tells it straight
Sorrow and Bliss
Meg Mason · 2022
Slow and sad, in the good way · tender, with a sting
Virgin Suicides
Jeffrey Eugenides · 1993
Slow and sad, in the good way · it stays with you
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I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman · 1995
Sadness on a low heat · it leaves you thinking
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