A Heartbreaking Novel About Mothers, Daughters and Secrets

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The Time Loop Book Series You Should Be Reading

How is it that a seven-book series written in Danish about a single day repeating over and over has become something of a sensation among the literary set? Since the English translations of Solvej Balle’s “On the Calculation of Volume” series were first published in the United St ...  Show more

Patrick Radden Keefe on the Mystery at the Center of ‘London Falling’

Patrick Radden Keefe joins “The Book Review” to discuss his new book, “London Falling,” which begins when a family loses a 19-year-old son, Zac Brettler, under mysterious circumstances. His parents eventually discover he had been living a secret life, posing as the son of a Russi ...  Show more

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