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The living sea of waking dreams

by Richard Flanagan

Against the backdrop of a changing climate and ecological crisis, Anna navigates her dying mother's medical care while noticing that parts of her own body, and those of others, are starting to vanish.

Accession 36767 ISBN 1760899943 Publisher Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
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