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[quote=Anonymous]I realize this is an older book (2018) but I just read it. Wow, it really stank. It was like she didn't have an editor. She used the same adjectives twice in a single paragraph -- and the word "skittish" about 20 times; used some words incorrectly as if she didn't know the actual definitions; and wrote a bunch of jarringly inconsistent details about her character (like, she was promiscuous and sophisticated millennial as a foil to her older lover, and yet she wasn't comfortable having him go down on her). It won the Kirkus prize and was listed as a NYT notable book? She's a MacArthur Fellow? How is this possible? The only thing intriguing is that it was pre-COVID and seemed to predict 2020. Maybe people were already looking at China as a source of an outbreak of some kind? Anyone read this book and like it? [/quote]
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