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Silence settled on the dining room. The candle flames flinched in unison as an exterior door was opened and closed. Thatcher listened to a household driven by its endless preoccupations: china teacups vexing their saucers, the pump handle
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“Such a sky. The widest she'd ever seen. Even more than the long bow of the shoreline and the eternal spread of the sea, it was the sky Betsy could not fold into her understanding, the cliffs and hillocks of the land overturned, sculpted into the stony clouds and softened with the promise of light.”
― The Typewriter Girl
― The Typewriter Girl
“she read, at peace with the world and happy as only a little girl could be with a fine book and a little bowl of candy..”
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“Once they were librarians, but that is a subject they will only discuss if heavily intoxicated.”
― The Night Circus
― The Night Circus
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Literary Fiction by People of Color
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