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Why the Tree Loves the Ax

by Jim Lewis · 1998

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Readers of Denis Johnson, David Foster Wallace, Mary Gaitskill, Susanna Moore, and other contemporary fiction writers will welcome this haunting novel about a 27-year-old woman who flees her failed marriage only to find herself involved in a perplexing spiral of murder, counterfeit, and false identity.

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1990s1990sMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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medium · 276 pages

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