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In the 10 best books of November, humility changes lives

1 Absolution, by Alice McDermott

Alice McDermott delivers a powerful novel of American wives stationed in Saigon, South Vietnam, with their husbands in 1963, shortly before the United States’ involvement in the Vietnam War. Nearly 60 years later, two of the women try to sort out what happened and whether they did the right thing.

2 Above the Salt, 

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