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    Piercing Maybe
    Piercing Maybe
    Piercing Maybe
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    Piercing Maybe

    By Dan Cray

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    NAMED TO KIRKUS REVIEWS' BEST BOOKS OF 2018

     

    You've never seen a true human being.

    No one has, because for several millennia a hidden society has conducted a clandestine effort to “diminish” the entire population, biochemically changing humans into lesser beings while they

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDelcominy Creations, L.L.C.
    Release dateJul 24, 2018
    ISBN9781940317120
    Piercing Maybe
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    Dan Cray

    Dan Cray is the author of The Reality Meltdown, Mother Tongue, and Piercing Maybe, which was named to Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2018. In nonfiction, he wrote Soaring Stones for National Geographic Books and worked as a freelance journalist for twenty-seven years, reporting sixty Time magazine cover stories and sharing a National Headliner Award. He holds a UCLA English degree and lives in Los Angeles with his wife and son.

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