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Island City
Written by Laura Adamczyk
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In this funny, devastating, acerbic debut novel, delivered as a booze-soaked monologue, a woman spills the story of her life to a bar full of strangers.
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Laura Adamczyk
Laura Adamczyk is the author of the short-story collection Hardly Children. She has won awards from the Union League Civic & Arts Foundation of Chicago and the Dzanc/DISQUIET International Literary Program. Her work has appeared in the Chicago Reader, Guernica, McSweeney’s, Ninth Letter, Salt Hill, and more. She lives in Chicago.
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