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'A masterful, must-read contribution to conversations on power, justice, healing, and devotion from a singular voice I now trust with my whole heart'
GLENNON DOYLE, author of Untamed

**Roxane Gay's Book Club March 2023 Pick**

When Lamya is fourteen, she decides to disappear.

It seems easier to ease herself out…

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This is a brave and talented author whose decision to live as a writer risks her existence. Her writing is superb, and the reflections she provokes about America are profound.

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