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Rachel is drawn into a dizzying world of Shanghai splendor

a lone fisherman guides them to what may or may not be his secret cache of the world's finest sea urchins

Olivia Colman

and anything reclaimed from French factories

“soul-nourishing” (USA Today) memoir about coming of age during the twilight of apartheid

the form perfectly fitting the content

family always comes first

AN APOCRYPHAL WARNING

approach from another angle altogether

and break the legacy of abuse

is peaceably in their lives

and his father measures out his eccentricities on an imperial scale