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Smith picks...
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Adam Johnson's
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<b>The Orphan Master's Son</b>
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(Random House)
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The Orphan Master's Son" performs an unusual form of sorcery, taking a frankly cruel and absurd reality and somehow converting it into a humane and believable fiction. It's an epic feat of story-telling. It's thrillingly written, and it's just thrilling period.

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( Roderick Field / The Penguin Press, Random House )

Smith picks...

Adam Johnson's
The Orphan Master's Son
(Random House)

The Orphan Master's Son" performs an unusual form of sorcery, taking a frankly cruel and absurd reality and somehow converting it into a humane and believable fiction. It's an epic feat of story-telling. It's thrillingly written, and it's just thrilling period.

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