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2020 selection · Fiction & literature
Pizza Girl: A Novel
Pizza Girl: A Novel by Jean Kyoung Frazier appears in NPR’s 2020 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, funny stuff, rather short, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
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