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A Year in Reading: Ruth Madievsky

2023 was the most surreal and intimidating year of my adult life. I was going to have my first baby! I was going to publish my first novel! I was going to have my first baby three months before publishing my first novel!

I committed to book launches all over the country, willing my unborn baby to be chill enough to drag across tarnation. I learned that my low platelets might prevent me from getting an epidural, and proceeded to tell everyone I

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