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The Shame A Novel

Makenna Goodman

A "startlingly original" novel of "recursive loops through the mind of a woman who is breaking down from not making the art she absolutely must make" (Alexander Chee, Alma and her family live close to the land, raising chickens and sheep. While her husband works at a nearby college, she stays home...

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The Ezra Klein Show

Katz called it a beautiful book about isolation, dreams, and anxiety that felt political despite not being a politics book.

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Shame by McKenna Goodman. Beautiful book of kind of the friction of isolation and dreams and anxiety. And I think in some way it's not at all a political book, but it feels political in the way of the...

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Katz called it a beautiful book about isolation, dreams, and anxiety that felt political despite not being a politics book.

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Shame by McKenna Goodman. Beautiful book of kind of the friction of isolation and dreams and anxiety. And I think in some way it's not at all a political book, but it feels political in the way of the conversation we're having.

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