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A Year in Reading: Tommy Orange

What a year this has been. Do I mean it was really good or bad? It can’t just have been one of those. I just mean it was crazy. My novel came out and it’s hard to believe how well it’s been received. Because I had a debut come out this year, I met a lot of other debut novelists, and’s , ’s , and ’s are all beautiful, original and heartbreaking works. Each deal in different ways and to different extents: family, coming of age, and belonging.

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