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2023 selection · Fiction & literature
The Road to Dalton
The Road to Dalton by Shannon Bowring appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, family matters, the states we’re in, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
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