Improvement, Joan Silber*****
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Pachinko, Min Jin Lee*****
All for Nothing, Walter Kempowski*****
****1/2
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Basic Black with Pearls, Helen Weinzweig****1/2
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****1/2
(Friend, unrated)
****1/2
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Signs Preceding the End of the World*****
*****
***1/2
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*****
Sing, Unburied, Sing; Jesmyn Ward*****