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2023 selection · Fiction & literature
All You Have to Do Is Call
All You Have to Do Is Call by Kerri Maher appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around historical fiction, book club ideas, eye-opening reads, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
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