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This month, we’re reading two deeply divergent takes on displacement and the pull of home, from an unnamed country in the wake of a devastating war to modern Nigeria.
Etna: A Novel
Paul Yoon (Scribner, 208 pp., $28, August 2026)
This month, we’re reading two deeply divergent takes on displacement and the pull of home, from an unnamed country in the wake of a devastating war to modern Nigeria.
Etna: A Novel
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