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“The Dry Heart is short, focused, cyclical and repetitive. It’s the story of a woman who, you learn in the first paragraph of the novella, has killed her husband because she cannot take him any more. It circles around the moment when she shoots him, and backs into it from a number of different ways. It’s a novella that helps you understand why a certain kind of emotionally intense reckoning might fit better into a novella format than a novel.” Read more...
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