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Biblioracle: Adam Langer’s ‘Cyclorama’ shows how books can reveal hidden things about the places we know best

Por: Chicago Tribune Entertainment September 24, 2022

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You think you know the place you grew up in — in my case, the northern suburbs of Chicago — but then a novel comes along that makes you see it with new eyes. That novel is Adam Langer’s “Cyclorama,” and it reveals hidden depths about the world I come from, while also delivering a page-turning novel that is by turns funny, despairing and even affirming, a complex and powerful mix. Langer, whose 2004 debut, “Crossing California,” was... + full article



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