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This audacious novel delivers a wallop of zany absurdity, impish satire, phantasmagoric imagery, and hyperbolically burlesque characters. Zoe is the very incarnation of pathological narcissism, while Lily is in hopelessly bad faith with herself. Watching the danse macabre of their imploding friendship makes for peak literary enjoyment.

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Magical realism meets the magic of Christmas in this mix of Jewish, New Testament, and Santa stories–all reenacted in an urban psychiatric hospital!

On locked ward 5C4, Josh, a patient with many similarities to Jesus, is hospitalized concurrently with Nick, a patient with many similarities to Santa. The two argue…

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