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2021 selection · Fiction & literature

American Delirium: A Novel

by Betina González, translated by Heather Cleary

NPR Books We Love · Recommendation

American Delirium: A Novel by Betina González, translated by Heather Cleary appears in NPR’s 2021 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around let’s talk about sex, seriously great writing, the dark side, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.

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