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Faces in the Crowd 2012

By Valeria Luiselli, Armando Duran, Roxanne Hernandez, Christina Macsweeney

Women authors, Fiction, Fiction, general

A multi-layered story told by two narrators: a 21st-century Emily Dickinson living in Mexico City who relates to the world vicariously through her children and a past that both overwhelms and liberates her, and a dying poet living in a run-down apartment in Philadelphia in the 1950s.

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Author: Valeria Luiselli, Armando Duran, Roxanne Hernandez, Christina Macsweeney
First published: 2012
Pages: 147
Publisher: Granta, Blackstone Audiobooks, Unknown Publisher
Editions: 7
Language: English
ISBN: 9781783787630

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