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The things we carry: Michelle Berry examines the confluence of personal and geopolitical trauma in Everything Turns Away

November 29, 2021June 14, 2022
by Steven Beattie

The risk in writing a domestic thriller with 9/11 as backdrop is that the geopolitical material comes off as a gimmick rather than an integral story element.

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