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Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

National Book Critics Circle Award Winner

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Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how much of our memory, of our bodies, of the world as we know it ― how much of what we love can we lose b…

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Universality

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