Robert Jones Jr. and Laird Hunt talk tragedies and overlooked histories
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Laird Hunt, Sore by Scott Simon
Laird hunt, sore is about the kind of life we may not often read in novels zory is elderly. She's lost her parents to dyphtheria at an early and then not much later, the aunt who stepped in to rase her. The national book award finalist of a novel packs a whole, absorbing human life into just a hundred and 61 pages that are polished like jewels.
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