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"  Peter Rock&amp;#039;s perspicacious novel My Abandonment (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)\u2014based on a true story\u2014shadows a 13-year-old girl (the book&amp;#039;s narrator) and her Vietnam-vet father as their makeshift forest shelter near Portland, Oregon, is discovered, catapulting them into the tamed chaos of the social service system until they bold again for the freedom, and the danger, of the wild. The Unknown Knowns (Scribner), Jeffrey Rotter&amp;#039;s debut novel, pokes serious fun at the paranoia that has stalked America since 9/11 with a story about a man who is obsessed with an imaginary race of early aquatic apes (and the all too real G-man on his tail), whose delusions catch up with him at a rundown water park. Flannery (Little, Brown), by award-winning author (and biographer of Frank O&amp;#039;Hara) Brad Gooch, illuminates the short, tragic life of Flannery O&amp;#039;Connor, the Southern-gothic genius whose fiction, occasional prose, and correspondence are as dazzling as the exotic peacocks that roamed her Georgia homestead. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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