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1 author picked Things Beloved as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I met the author at a writers’ workshop and ordered the book out of solidarity, and then was happily blown away by the tight, smart prose, especially in the second of the two novellas, which is about a boy who finds a sailboat half buried in the sand and restores it.
I found the story spare and intensely moving. This book is like a secret treasure—a real find.
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