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The Sun-Drenched Showdown: Why Liam’s Secret Changes Everything

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GUS SLID OUT of the booth, and I followed, gathering the donut box and mycup of sizzling shit. It had stopped raining, but now heavy fog hung inclumps. Without another word, we got into the car and drove away fromDONUTS, the word glowing teal in the rearview mirror.“It’s the happy endings,” Gus said suddenly as […]

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Historical Fiction Is “Having a Moment”

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‎‎Listing Yaa Gyasi, Yvonne Owuor, Colson Whitehead, Chimamanda Adichie, and Peter Kimani as examples, historian Dan Magaziner notes in an article on Africa Is a Country that historical fiction “has been having a bit of a moment recently, especially among authors from the African continent and its diaspora” (2017: para. 1). Confirming this, Lizzy Attree

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