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Fiction Reviews

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Wounded Boarders: Stories by George Singleton

Heather by Caitlin Mullen

Brought To You By: How Corporations Warped the Truth, Conned the Public, and Broke Democracy by Amy Westervelt

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Almost Grown: A New York Memoir by Jesse Malin

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