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Want a shorter read that's heavy on substance? These slimmed down summer books (stories, essays, novellas) will do the trick.
American Music by Jane Mendelsohn
Milo is a wounded veteran of the Iraq War. Honor is his physical therapist. When she touches his wounds Honor is overcome by images that perplex and frighten them both. Together, they begin to weave stories that reveal their growing attraction: “At night she reads his bones. Honor watches them as they fly toward her in the darkness, spinning, burning, aflame. They arrange themselves into letters, then words. They spell out secrets that she doesn’t want to know.”
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