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    A Year in Reading: Ling Ma

    by Ling Ma Dec 03, 2018 2 minutes

    So I will now remember 2018 as the year I read for the first time. A 1982 novel by , the premise reads like a fairy tale: a housewife stows away an escaped sea monster in her house. His name is Aquarius but being unable to pronounce this, he just goes by Larry. Upon their unexpected

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