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Emotional grandeur, rendered in the vernacular, has been Mona Simpson’s forte. In her novels, ‘Anywhere but Here,’ ‘The Lost Father’ and ‘A Regular Guy,’ Simpson wrote wide and long and high about the most profound human bonds: parents and children lost each other, found each other, lost each other again, but differently.

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The Girls,’ by Lori Lansens, is a ballad, a melancholy song of two very strange, enchanted girls who live out their peculiar, ordinary lives in a rural corner of Canada.

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As readers, we sense when the game is being played for real and when something else is afoot: pride, showmanship, the pursuit of power, self-aggrandizement, revenge, making money. Not that there’s anything wrong with any of that, but I dislike closing a book with the sense that I’ve been had.

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June 5, 2024

As readers, we sense when the game is being played for real and when something else is afoot: pride, showmanship, the pursuit of power, self-aggrandizement, revenge, making money. Not that there’s anything wrong with any of that, but I dislike closing a book with the sense that I’ve been had.

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June 5, 2024

The Girls,’ by Lori Lansens, is a ballad, a melancholy song of two very strange, enchanted girls who live out their peculiar, ordinary lives in a rural corner of Canada.

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Emotional grandeur, rendered in the vernacular, has been Mona Simpson’s forte. In her novels, ‘Anywhere but Here,’ ‘The Lost Father’ and ‘A Regular Guy,’ Simpson wrote wide and long and high about the most profound human bonds: parents and children lost each other, found each other, lost each other again, but differently.

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