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1 author picked How to Hold Someone in Your Heart as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

At first I thought this novel was going to be a nice piece of whimsy, an interesting conceit with a handful of quirky characters. But its slight length belies its deep understanding of love and loss. It's a meditation on grief that is full of life and love.

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On a small, isolated island, in a reclusive forest, lives bandit leader Marani and her brother Jacks. With their outlaw band they rob from the rich to feed themselves, raiding carriages and dodging the occasional vindictive…

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