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Sarah Manguso’s ‘Very Cold People’ and life’s overwhelming small moments

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Waitesfield Is the Name of the Imaginary to in a Real State

Waitesfield is the name of the imaginary to inin a real state. And there in massachusetts, it is very cold. But almost as if by a metaphoric extension, the people are called too and their behaviour to one another is highly judgmental. By the time i reached the end of very cold people, i was so astonished that people i'd come to know so well and be shocked by could be so clearly under stood through their own backgrounds in history. A say, the novels direction is to say how parents and ture came to be this cold? Because we do find out. And it is a revelation.

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