Richard Powers · 1995
- What it is
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Slow and sad, in the good way
- Genre
- Science fiction Literary
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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The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
Franz Kafka · 1996
Sad, and in no hurry · it ties your stomach in a knot
Convenience store woman
Sayaka Murata · 2018
Slow and sad, in the good way · a small story, told up close
Normal People
Sally Rooney · 2018
Sad, and in no hurry · tender until it hurts
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro · 2005
Sadness on a low heat · it leaves you thinking
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Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes · 1966
Sadness on a low heat · lovely, but it stings
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway · 1952
Slow and sad, in the good way · it stays with you
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