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Vasko Popa, “Last News About the Little Box,” translated by Charles Simic, from Homage to the Lame Wolf: Selected Poems. Copyright © 1987 by Oberlin College. Reprinted with the permission of Oberlin College Press.
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Celt, Adrienne.
The daughters : a novel / Adrienne Celt.
pages cm
ISBN 978-1-63149-045-3 (hardcover)
1. Sopranos—Fiction. 2. Mothers and daughters—Fiction. 3. Grandmothers—Fiction. 4. Family life—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3603.E465D48 2015
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2015005829
ISBN 978-1-63149-046-0 (e-book)
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