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2019 selection · Fiction & literature
The Need
The Need by Helen Phillips appears in NPR’s 2019 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around book club ideas, family matters, seriously great writing, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
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