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Rafael Frumkin is a novelist. writer, CONFIDENCE (2023), BUGSY (2024), and THE COMEDOWN (2018) | assorted (non)fiction and journalism, assistant prof at SIUC | 🏳️‍⚧️ he/they

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Book Cover for: All This Could Be Different, Sarah Thankam Mathews

All This Could Be Different

Sarah Thankam Mathews
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With characters compassionately rendered and a story that speaks to the experience of a first-generation queer millennial, All This Could Be Different is the kind of book many readers will need as much as they want, and we’re lucky to have it.

Paperback, 2023

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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The Laughter

Sonora Jha
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To say “The Laughter” is just a campus novel is to vastly undersell it; it’s also the story of America’s changing cultural landscape and the major political and philosophical shifts needed to uplift and protect the marginalized.

Paperback, 2024

$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Confidence

Rafael Frumkin
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"Rafael Frumkin drolly points out the similarities between what Ezra and Orson are doing and other promoters of feel-good-programs...Where, he asks, is the line between guru and criminal?" Love this review of CONFIDENCE in @crimehq by @dvaleris! https://t.co/blmd2OUNRa

Paperback, 2024

$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Centre, Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi

The Centre

Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi
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my review of @tweetingayesha's chilling and thrilling THE CENTRE is up at @nytimesbooks today! https://t.co/9UEycpdwPG

Hardcover, 2023

$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: What Should Be Wild, Julia Fine

What Should Be Wild

Julia Fine
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just finished/was utterly obliterated by @finejuli’s twisted, lush, gut-punch of a fairytale, WHAT SHOULD BE WILD. there are several reasons why you *must* read this book 🧵 https://t.co/kIwxHLGKiG

Paperback, 2019

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Old Babes in the Wood: Stories, Margaret Atwood

Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

Margaret Atwood
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so honored to be among the fourteen books @TIME wants you to read in march! (CONFIDENCE is second on the list, after @MargaretAtwood's OLD BABES IN THE WOOD, which i am promptly buying a copy of when it goes on sale) https://t.co/Wc8s6rifHr

Paperback, 2024

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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