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Squid Game meets The Left Hand of Darkness meets Under the Skin in this radical literary sensation from South Korea about an alien's hunt for food that transforms into an existential crisis about what it means to be human.
After crashing their spacecraft in the middle of nowhere, a shapeshifting…
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1 author picked Walking Practice as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Some form of space alien subsists by adopting human form and developing intimate relationships with unsuspecting victims, who the alien then eats, with varying amounts of regret.
I love this book so much I brought it to dinner to read at a local inn and the server asked about it; she then went out and bought it and read it and loved it and it’s started a bit of a trend in our teeny, not-terribly book-friendly community.
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