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Where You Find It.(Brief Article)

The New Yorker

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Where You Find It, by Janice Galloway (Simon & Schuster; $24). The twenty stories in this unsettling, beautifully written collection take place in and around Glasgow, and the protagonists are mainly imperfectly loved girls and women. Galloway is particularly interested in moments of apprehension, times when a ...

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