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I prefer both: The Reservation, by Rebecca Kaufman; Loved and Missed, by Susie Boyt (opens the original)
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Hiya, I hope you had an excellent summer. I’m breaking with my usual to nudge two books into your TBR (the largess!). I heard about Rebecca Kaufman’s The Reservation on the From the Front Porch podcast, which beams out from The Book Shelf bookstore in Thomasville, Georgia. The various bookseller hosts and show formats make for a fun hang. The set-up: It’s a big day at Aunt Orsa’s, the nicest restaurant in an unnamed midwestern university town. John Grisham has a reservation. Two flies in the oin
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