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    <em>The Art of Vanishing</em> Is a Marriage Memoir With Hidden Depths

    Laura Smith looks to the haunting story of a missing child novelist to answer her own questions about balancing creativity and freedom with love and stability.
    by Ann Hulbert Mar 19, 2018 1 minute
    Source: Viking

    unusual book twice, and it only got better. First I rushed through it to find out whether Laura Smith had solved the mystery of Barbara Newhall Follett, whose prodigious early life

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