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The Thirty Names of Night
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May 25, 2023
Finish date
June 8, 2023
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The Thirty Names of Night is Reading on the Margins Book Discussion's June selection! This book club will…more

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Courtney
Dec 17, 2020 rated it really liked it
The idea that art, or the natural world, could ever be anyone's property has always made me uneasy. A work is shaped not only by the artist, but by everyone who interacts with it; it belongs a little to everyone. This, too, is how a life is made: with the support of many hands.

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Joukhadar's prose is absolutely beautiful, no doubt about it. I loved reading The Map of Salt and Stars and was so excited for this book, Joukhadar's second. But this story seemed convoluted with mor
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