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What was Mine

A collection of short fiction, twelve works in all, including two never-before-published novellas. Here are disconnected marriages and uneasy reunions, nostalgic reminiscences and sudden epiphanies—a remarkable and moving collage of contemporary lives.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 252 pages

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