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18 And Life On Skid Row

by Sebastian Bach

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18 And Life On Skid Row by Sebastian Bach appears in NPR’s 2017 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, biography & memoir, nonfiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.

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