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The Golden State: A Novel
Lydia Kiesling2018 selection · Fiction & literature
The Golden State: A Novel
The Golden State: A Novel by Lydia Kiesling appears in NPR’s 2018 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around family matters, seriously great writing, the states we’re in, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
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