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Year in Reading: Jennifer Acker

When life outside the house evaporated last March, and we turned our focus inward, I thought innocently, “Zoom book group!” My husband and another couple were willing, and I took advantage of their indecision, or perhaps it was polite deference to my profession, to impose my favorite novelist on our unsuspecting friends. I first read  by in college in a fiction workshop taught by , who once, with the best of intentions, lectured our

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