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A Year in Reading: Anne K. Yoder

2017, I resented you and your Twitter feeds, the obscenity of your news stream. The skyrocketing of petulance and greed. The normalization of hate. It was a year of half-read books: too difficult to concentrate. But books, they were also, for me, bright stars against the dark night of our political nadir. ’s tore a hole in my soul. A semi-autobiographical novel about the break-up of a marriage: think , think set with West Virginia as its backdrop. The sad, clever, and at times woefully misguided Scott chronicles the

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