BOOK REVIEW
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Douglas Stuart has once again delivered a novel that feels emotionally bruising in the best possible sense. John of John explores masculinity, inheritance, addiction and working-class survival with the same devastating clarity that defined Shuggie Bain. Stuart’s greatest strength remains his ability to write tenderness within brutality. Even in environments shaped by violence, poverty and…
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Elizabeth Strout remains one of the finest observers of human loneliness currently writing, and The Things We Never Say continues her extraordinary ability to locate emotional devastation within ordinary lives. The novel explores silence in all its forms: silence between partners, silence within families and silence people impose upon themselves out of fear or shame.…
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