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Family Values: New Fiction From Liese O'Halloran Schwarz And Sarah Langan

By & • Feb 4, 2021

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On this edition of The Weekly Reader, our book critic Marion Winik reviews two novels about two rather uncommon families: What Could Be Saved by Liese O'Halloran Schwarz, and Good Neighbors by Sarah Langan.

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