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Primitive People

by Francine Prose · 1992

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The author of the award-winning Blue Angel now offers the trenchant, bitingly funny adventures of a Haitian au pair in an eccentric upper-class Hudson Valley household.

Setting
1990s1990sMore like thisLess of thisHudson River ValleyHudson River ValleyMore like thisLess of thisUSAUSAMore like thisLess of this
Mood
funnyfunnyMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 228 pages

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