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I Am the Ghost Here

by Kim Samek (Goodreads Author)

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“What could be lonelier than trying to communicate?”
― Denis Johnson

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“That in real life, there are no protagonists. Or, rather, the reverse: It’s nothing but protagonists. It’s protagonists all the way down.”
― Andrew Sean Greer, Less Is Lost

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