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In “Green Frog,” Gina Chung Makes a Stunningly-Good Case for Writing Wholly Recognizable and Unrecognizable Characters

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Andrew Leland on "The Country of the Blind" and the Spectrum of Blindness

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“You Learn to Care for Your Characters Differently”: An Interview with Rachel Lyon on “Fruit of the Dead”

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“You Learn to Care for Your Characters Differently”: An Interview with Rachel Lyon on “Fruit of the Dead”

[ad_1] Rachel Lyon’s Fruit of the Dead follows a young woman, Cory, on the cusp of adulthood when she signs the paperwork for a job as a nanny for the children of Rolo, a wealthy pharmaceutical executive. She is soon whisked away to his remote island where she regularly samples his company’s latest mind-altering painkiller … Read more