Emma Cline 2016
- What it is
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Told in two timelines · it stays with you
- Genre
- Literary Crime Historical fiction
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It leaves you thinking · it hurts, and then it heals
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It leaves you thinking · it won't tell you everything at once
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It leaves you thinking · it leaves you shaken
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It leaves you thinking · properly strange
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It leaves you thinking · tender and sad at once
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Only lyrical prose
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