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What Fiction Means

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There isn’t much that will make you more aware of a book’s message, and leerier of it, than reading it aloud to a child. Maybe this explains why I seem to have discovered books with such inordinately terrible messages during the three-plus years I’ve been reading to my daughter.

Review: THE PAPER MAN by Gallagher Lawson

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The Paper Man Gallagher Lawson Published: May 12, 2015 Unnamed Press 261 pages Buy: book   A man with a papier mâché body and hair made of yarn attempts to break out of his protected, isolated, and stagnant life and escape to an unnamed city. On the bus, a