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Eartha

by Cathy Malkasian

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Eartha by Cathy Malkasian appears in NPR’s 2017 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, comics & graphic novels, sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.

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