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    Alias Grace

    When Grace Marks was sixteen years old, she was accused of killing Nancy Montgomery and Thomas Kinnear. On the farm that Kinnear owned, Montgomery and Kinnear had snuck around in secret; they were ...

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    The True Story of Grace Marks and Why Margaret Atwood Wrote About Her

    The novel Alias Grace, handsomely written by Margaret Atwood, is based on the true life story of housemaid Grace Marks, convicted of taking part in the murder of Thomas Kinnear, who employed Marks...

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    The Fortnight in September

    "All men are equal on their holidays: all are free to dream their castles without thought of expense, or skill of architect."

    In April 2020, several weeks into a stressful nationwide ...

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    The Seaside Resort Town of Bognor Regis

    The Fortnight in September by R.C. Sherriff takes place in 1930 at the West Sussex seaside resort town of Bognor Regis on the south coast of England. The Stevens family is spending two weeks at the ...

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    Erasure

    Erasure by Percival Everett, first published in 2001, has reached great heights with its author's escalating fame and the 2023 film adaptation American Fiction. But it retains within the confines of ...

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    A Percival Everett Starter List

    Percival Everett's 2001 novel Erasure was adapted for film as American Fiction in 2023, leading to director Cord Jefferson's Oscar win for Best Adapted Screenplay. The year after, Everett's new novel ...

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    The House on Buzzards Bay

    If Jim's parents hadn't died when he was a teenager, the house on Buzzards Bay would have passed to them. Instead, at age 25 and just out of law school, Jim finds himself alone with the keys. ...

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    Communal Utopias in Nineteenth-Century America

    In The House on Buzzards Bay, Dwyer Murphy's gothic thriller, a group of former college roommates reunite for their summer vacation in a beachfront mansion. The house, owned equally by all six ...

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    The Compound

    Apathetic twentysomething Lily is beautiful but otherwise unremarkable, as she will be the first to tell you. She's bored with her job and doesn't get along with her mom, who she lives with, and she ...

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    Novels About Reality Television

    Aisling Rawle's debut novel The Compound takes place on an unnamed reality competition television show, where contestants live together, compete in challenges to earn rewards, and gradually get ...

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    The Original

    Money has always been bound up with marriage, for reasons of lineage and inheritance and more. The two concepts can become conflated, mirror one another, can each make the need for the other disappear...

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    Jan van Eyck's Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife (1434)

    In The Original by Nell Stevens, Grace Inderwick, who lives a privileged but dreary existence with her aunt in England at the turn of the 20th century, dreams of making an independent life for herself...

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    In a grand English country house in 1899, an aspiring art forger must unravel whether the man claiming to be her long-lost cousin is an impostor.

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