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"Ingenious . . . like something out of a Yorgos Lanthimos film . . . it's not just the skeletons lurking behind the ivy-covered walls of the institute that make the novel so propulsive--it's also what The Centre has to say about class and the interplay of language and identity . . . Manazir Siddiqi is juggling many themes at this point--cultural appropriation, class anxiety, the immigrant experience--but she does so with aplomb, and without detracting from the story's addictive momentum . . . Manazir Siddiqi weaves a narrative web connecting the vagaries of language with national identity and the perils of class conformity. . . . This is a book whose many delights and horrors are unlikely to be lost in translation." --Rafael Frumkin, The New York Times