The Importance of Hope in a Book

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Solomon: I personally love reading stuff that is intense that leaves you thinking about it for a long time like a song stuck in your head but I also really struggle with endings that are completely unhappy or don't offer some promise of a future. "I want people to come away with quote well that was a lot but that was bad but it's gonna be better tomorrow," she says.

Imagine a version of the spaceship from Wall-E, but with racial and class divisions that mirror those in our own society. That's a (dramatically oversimplified) one-line summary of what's going on in this week's book.

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