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Bess Kretsinger
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The Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman The Hawkline Monster by Richard Brautigan Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino Self-Help by Lorrie Moore Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails by Ted Haigh A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor
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Self-Help by Lorrie Moore
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“Your numbness,” my mother cries softly, “is something perhaps you cannot help. It is what the world has done to you. But your coldness. That is what you do to the world.”
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