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Maybe I just don‘t share Curtis Sittenfeld‘s taste, but these don‘t feel like last year‘s best. Lots of self-absorbed characters with seemingly little at stake. Faves: Selena Anderson‘s “Godmother Tea,” magical realism and snappy language from a soul food-cooking ancestor as Joy (*irony*) grapples with identity, adulthood, friends, ex-lover. And urgency of “The Hands of Dirty Children” by Alejandro Puyana, homeless children in Caracas. 2020
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