Emma Cline · 2016
- What it is
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It stays with you · it gets under your skin
- Genre
- Literary Historical fiction
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It leaves something behind · it leaves you short of breath
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It leaves something behind · properly scary
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It leaves you thinking · something is lurking
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Ballad of Black Tom
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It leaves something behind · hard, and nobody dresses it up
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Lionel Shriver · 2003
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