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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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    Flashlight

    In Susan Choi's Flashlight, ten-year-old Louisa, the daughter of a Japanese-born Korean man and a white woman from the American Midwest, is found unconscious on a beach in Japan—her father, who ...

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    Korean Language Loss Under Japanese Colonialism and Beyond

    In Susan Choi's Flashlight, main character Seok, later referred to as Serk, spends his childhood with his Korean family in Japan during the Japanese occupation of Korea. He attends a Japanese school, ...

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    Hot Girls with Balls

    The title of Hot Girls with Balls is clearly meant to grab the reader's attention and inspire questions about the meaning of its double (triple?) entendre. It refers to the protagonists, two Asian ...

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    Trans People Have Always Played Sports: Women Breaking Barriers

    In Hot Girls with Balls, author Benedict Nguyễn chooses to depict her protagonists, two star athletes who happen to both be Asian trans women, as competitors in the professional men's ...

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    UnWorld

    Jayson Greene's debut novel UnWorld is set in a speculative near future in which people can create digital copies of their memories and consciousness. But when these "uploads" proved to be sentient ...

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    Could Mind Uploading Become a Reality?

    In Jayson Greene's novel UnWorld, people can create sentient copies of their memories. The concept of creating a digital afterlife may sound strictly from the realm of science fiction, but ...

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