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The Twenty-Seventh City
The Twenty-Seventh City: A Novel | Jonathan Franzen
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S. Jammu, a young, ambitious Indian woman, is sworn in as police chief of St. Louis where the acts of private citizens are monitored and the actions of Martin Probst and his family threaten to destroy her plan. Reprint.
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"A Democratic banker - it was a mild sensation, like fresh papaya."

"His face was like the face of generic Homo sapiens in encyclopedias."

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Jonathan Franzen manages to make St. Louis feel claustrophobic. I love a good “nothing actually mattered“ ending -- so many people have their lives irreversibly damaged through Jammu's conspiracy, and the conspiracy itself fails. Everyone gets screwed! Amazingly gutsy anticlimax. I loved this book.

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I thought I would struggle with today's photo challenge (like @Library-Belle I expected this to be a Janet Evanovich post), but a perusal of just one of my bookcases (there are many) revealed all of these! Who knew? Lots of books with numbers. #somethingforsept

Library-Belle I know right? I only looked at my library tbr pile and there were already three popping out at me... Who knows how many more are on my many bookcases or in boxes under my bed 8y
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