Authors Peng Shepherd and Anne Tyler show that family is...complicated
NPR's Book of the Day
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The cartographers focuses on nell, who's been estranged from her father for seven years. The only remaining connection between them is that they are both cartographers. When he turns up dead, sure, thet st of any thriller is the hodonas and the wise of the matter. But as shepherd tells it, and pierre's elici nad warney, the book is also about their shared obsessions and really finding out what they're a standing for.
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