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The Instability of Life
Klein: The character of Alex, she was utterly mesmerizing and she was also really hard to root for. She doesn't really evolve as the novel plays out. I resist some of the classical narratives in a book or movie that the character should learn something by the end,. "I find life is so often not like that," Klein says.
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