Nine Shiny ObjectsLONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 PEN FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION \"In this extraordinary novel, Castleberry brilliantly hopscotches from person to person, from era to era, while somehow making all this fancy footwork look effortless and essential.\" Jenny Offill, author of Department of Speculation and Weather A luminous debut novel in the tradition of DeLillo and Egan, chronicling the eerily intersecting lives of a series of American dreamers whose unforeseen

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yet her loyalty lies with a man determined to bring about my destruction

rollicking seventeenth-century adventure

the late spokesman for progressive Christianity and one of the most revered and influential theologians of our time

While the police's search for her rapist proved futile

and true evil

Emily can't stop thinking about her new boyfriend

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