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Joan Frank

Joan Frank’s latest books are Late Work: A Literary Autobiography of Love, Loss, and What I Was Reading and Juniper Street: A Novel. Her recent novella, Troldhaugen, appears in the online literary zine Failbetter.

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the last human bear by greg sarris, book review

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