Kirkus names “10 Books to Lose Yourself In” today. The list includes A Reunion of Ghosts and A Given World, my former MFA student Marian Palaia’s first novel.
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“For the Alters, life has been a seemingly endless series of tragedies; for us, the tragedy is that this stunning novel inevitably comes to an end.”