Alice Sebold · 2000
- What it is
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It stays with you · it restores your faith in people
- Genre
- Literary Mystery Thriller
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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It leaves you thinking · sadness on a low heat
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It leaves you thinking · a good honest cry
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It leaves something behind · sad, and in no hurry
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Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
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You come out liking people more · like coming home
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Elizabeth Strout · 2007
It restores your faith in people · a small story, told up close
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