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The Shadow Man: A Novel
The Shadow Man: A Novel
The Shadow Man: A Novel
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In this first novel, Sofia Shafquat combines the insightful humor of Cathy Guisewite with a fresh new literary voice and a quintessentially California milieu. She speaks to women of the nineties who still remember lifetimes spent waiting for elusive and resistant men. What makes them such shadows? What would it have taken to make them real?
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Release dateMar 1, 2016
ISBN9781504028639
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