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2016 selection · Nonfiction
Little Labors
Little Labors by Rivka Galchen appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, family matters, seriously great writing, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
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