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2017 selection · Fiction & literature
Smile: A Novel
Smile: A Novel by Roddy Doyle appears in NPR’s 2017 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, the dark side, tales from around the world, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
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