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I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness: A Novel

by Claire Vaye Watkins

NPR Books We Love · Recommendation

I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness: A Novel by Claire Vaye Watkins appears in NPR’s 2021 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, family matters, the states we’re in, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.

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