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Ann Patchett, plus Magical Historical Fiction with S. J. Parris and Laura Shepherd-Robinson

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The Square of Sevens

In the Square of Sevens, Red uses her fortune-telling card skills in order to winkle out the secrets of her family. She's effectively acting very much like a therapist would today in the sense that she is getting people to talk about their problems and open up. And again, the book deliberately leaves ambiguous the answer to whether that is magic or not.

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