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    Paradise found

    Jan 23, 2022 2 minutes
    by BRIGID FEEHAN

    ans of Hanya Yanagihara’s Booker-shortlisted are in for a completely different treat with this one another doorstopper at 700 pages, is divided into three separate books. Book I is set in an imagined 1893 in upper-class New York. The young protagonist suffers from “nervous troubles” and “confinements”. Knitting and drawing use up time as a doting grandfather works

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