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    The Equality of Shame: On ‘The Heart’s Invisible Furies’ by John Boyne

    by Joshunda Sanders Aug 30, 2017 4 minutes

    At this year’s BookExpo, surrounded by stacks of galleys (most of which I tried to haul from the Jacob Javitz Center in Manhattan on two different train rides to the South Bronx in an effort to claim the world’s nerdiest #FirstWorldProblems award) I was introduced to the Irish novelist John Boyne by a woman who saw me staring at the pink and red tome with a puzzled look on my face. It was a doozy of a galley, thick and intimidating. I wasn’t sure I could stand to bring one more book home. Still, I find epic novels sexy. All I ever need is an enabler.

    “You really need to pick that one up,” she said, as if my internal voice had gone external. “It’s the

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