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Claire Keegan’s brilliant debut collection, Antarctica, was a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year, and earned her resounding accolades on both sides of the Atlantic. Now she has delivered her next, much-anticipated book, Walk the Blue Fields, an unforgettable array of quietly wrenching stories about despair and desire in…

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1 author picked Walk the Blue Fields as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Being a short story writer I thoroughly enjoyed how Claire Keegan pieces together a story - simply, beautiful descriptive passages, particularly of human emotions.

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