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A Dakota Johnson x TeaTime Book Club Pick
New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Selection
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year

"The Anthropologists is mesmerizing; I felt I read it in a single breath." -Garth Greenwell
"Savas is an author who simply, and astoundingly, knows." -Bryan Washington…

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The Anthropologists—like the documentary its narrator, Asya, films each day—is fundamentally a story about the “unremarkable grace” of daily life. That’s the thing about grace though, it’s never unremarkable, only unnoticed. Not here though.

This is a story of an adopted city, an apartment, a cafe, a park—and the life happily married couple, Asya and Manu, live, moment by mostly quiet moment, in these places; the community and the language and the artifacts and the rituals and the daily practices that emerge—that are built—when one lives away from the place they were born, away from the community and the language…

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