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The Thing About Jellyfish

by Ali Benjamin

NPR Books We Love · Recommendation

The Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin appears in NPR’s 2015 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, book club ideas, kids’ books, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.

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