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2015 selection · Fiction & literature
Purity: A Novel
Purity: A Novel by Jonathan Franzen appears in NPR’s 2015 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around book club ideas, family matters, rather long, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
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