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'Outstanding... An elegant masterpiece... Wry but also warm and generous' Roxane Gay

'Funny, exciting, vulnerable - truly visionary' Alexander Chee

Ten days after calling off her wedding, CJ Hauser went on an expedition to study the whooping crane. After a week wading through the gulf, she realised she had almost…

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It was just an interesting collection of essays, some of them autobiographical.

The first piece, where she breezes through individual years of her life, was hilarious and fascinating. I also really liked her in-depth examination of The X-Files. Well written, comical, and often extremely insightful all around.

From Jason's 3 favorite reads in 2023.

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