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Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
  • Available in: Paperback, Hardcover, eBook, Audio Book
  • Published: October 11, 2022
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“Sharp and impeccably funny.”
–Katy Waldman, The New Yorker

A man named Gil walks from New York to Arizona to recover from a failed love. After he arrives, new neighbors move into the glass-walled house next door and his life begins to mesh with theirs.

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A Tender Man

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