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Fairleigh Dickinson University

Riverhead

A Review of Friendswood by René Steinke

August 14, 2014

Jessie Vail Aufiery

(New York, NY: Riverhead, 2014) Friendswood, the lyrical new novel by National Book Award Finalist RenĂ© Steinke, is the kind of 300-plus-page book that devours you in a couple of afternoons. The prose is nimble but sure-footed, the narrative suspenseful, … Continued

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