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A Year in Reading: Sara Fan

I read ’s for a second time while waiting for the road through the Grand Canyon to open after a snowstorm. This memory is from the last few days of 2019 but feels very much like 2020. There was nothing to do but wait, and I read, walked to the viewpoint to see how the clouds over the canyon moved and how the sunlight now hit the snow, warmed up by reading in the gift shop, read in the sunlight at another overlook, and wandered the exhibits of Desert Tower, which I would normally defer as an activity to do on

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