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A Memory Called Empire

by Arkady Martine

NPR Books We Love · Recommendation

A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine appears in NPR’s 2019 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around book club ideas, it’s all geek to me, seriously great writing, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.

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