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A Year in Reading: Rachel Yoder

Before the pandemic, books were books.

Equal parts shadow and illumination, Helen Phillips’s The Need emerged as a sort of sci-fi chiaroscuro portrait of motherhood. Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson, a book which I’ve recommended to a dozen people since, was a delight with its wholly original narrator and combustible kids. And Normal People by Sally Rooney, which I knew I needed to read but had been putting off (probably because so many people had been so very enthusiastic about it), ultimately made me feel very old.

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