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Noonday: A Novel
Pat Barker2016 selection · Fiction & literature
Noonday: A Novel
Noonday: A Novel by Pat Barker appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around book club ideas, historical fiction, the dark side, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
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