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Marlena by Julie Buntin

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Marlena

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by Julie Buntin

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Buntin taps into something authentic, a core nugget so true that it feels like, in reading this novel, Marlena happened to me.

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Intermezzo
A Season of Light
Liquid
The Book of George
Real Americans
Dirty Diana
Wellness
Margo’s Got Money Troubles
The God of the Woods
Same As It Ever Was
Annie Bot
Bear
The Sun Was Electric Light
Mercury
True Biz
Family Happiness
The Lady Waiting
The Other Valley
Hard by a Great Forest
Good Material
The Bullet Swallower
Happy All the Time
Rental House
Alice Sadie Celine
Let Us Descend
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Shark Heart
Transcendent Kingdom
Hello Beautiful
Dominicana
What's Mine and Yours
The Unsettled
Ask Again, Yes
Vladimir
Infinite Country
The Prophets
Normal People
The Verifiers
Salvage the Bones
The Many Daughters of Afong Moy
I Have Some Questions for You
Black Buck
Age of Vice
Paper Names
Memorial
The Half Moon
Happiness Falls
The Gifted School
The Death of Vivek Oji
The Knockout Queen
Little Monsters
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Beautiful World, Where Are You
A Burning
The Mothers
The Sympathizer
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An American Marriage
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White Fur
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