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***Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction***

'Powerful' Financial Times
'A pure dust storm of utter genius' DAISY JOHNSON
'As profound as it is wonderfully strange' LAUREN GROFF

What do we choose to remember and what do we allow ourselves to forget?

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I loved how Russell takes a familiar setting, in this case the Dust Bowl in the 1930s, and tips us over into a version of it and reality that is unfamiliar and unsettling. She has created here a world full of impossible things and made them seem possible and even necessary.

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