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Last year her novel the emissary won the national book award. In the wake of an economic and environmental tragedy that eerily echoes 2011s fukushima daiichi nuclear disaster, the japanese government implements an isolation policy, cutting the country off from the outside world. Emissary veins, valveless veins which normally drain the intracranial venous sinuses to veins on the outside of the skull. Dec 30, 2014 emissary, by thomas locke, has shot to the top of my list of favorites. In this slim, impactful novel, surrealist master tawada memoirs of a polar bear, 2016, etc.
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