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Warning: Dont get too comfortable with any of the characters except for McCrackens ever-astute third-person narrator.

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Wang is fashionable, shes well-educated, and she makes both medical and literary references with equal grace.

(It also stands alone beautifully.)

Alas, this isnt a novel of transformation.

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It feels as dank and squalid as your worst basement sublet, as it should.

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I cant and wont stop recommending this remarkable, genre-collapsing novel to any and all friends.

Set aside a few long afternoons.

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