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2022 selection · Fiction & literature
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty: A Novel by Akwaeke Emezi appears in NPR’s 2022 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around let’s talk about sex, for art lovers, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
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