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Shy
Written by Max Porter
Narrated by Joe Gaminara
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This novel about guilt, rage, imagination, boyhood, and being lost in the dark and learning you’re not alone is the story of a few strange hours in a troubled teen's life.
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Max Porter
Max Porter is the author of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers, which won the International Dylan Thomas Prize and The Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer of the Year Award and was short-listed for The Guardian First Book Award and the Goldsmiths Prize.
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