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Quicksand

by Malin Persson Giolito

NPR Books We Love · Recommendation

Quicksand by Malin Persson Giolito appears in NPR’s 2017 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around mysteries & thrillers, tales from around the world, the dark side, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.

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