Daniel Keyes · 1966
- What it is
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Slow and sad, in the good way · tender, with a sting
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- Science fiction Literary
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Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro · 2005
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Normal People
Sally Rooney · 2018
Sad, and in no hurry · a small story, told up close
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
Helen Simonson · 2010
Sadness on a low heat · like coming home
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Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh · 1946
Sadness on a low heat · like coming home
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini · 2004
Sadness on a low heat · a good honest cry
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