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BRIEFLY NOTED.
The Virgin of Flames, by Chris Abani (Penguin; $14). The third novel by the Nigerian-born Abani centers on Black, an artist in East Los Angeles who inadvertently turns the building where he lives above a tattoo parlor into a shrine by appearing at the door of a spaceship he has built on the roof dressed as the Virgin of Guadalupe. Black is presented in a noirish framework--one of his friends, a ...
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