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where ties are being strengthened and mutual cooperation established

a village school teacher

and you'll find out how to design moments that lead to emotional engagement

Exiled from the LAPD

But when a man claiming to be a retired professor of literature recruits her for a project involving Kafka

Topics of Conversation Condition:Very Good where ties are being strengthenedWhat is the shape of a life? Is it the things that happen to us? Or is it the stories we tell about the things that happen to us? Miranda Popkey's remarkable debut novel follows one woman as she makes her way through two decades of bad relationships, motherhood, crisis and consolation, each new episode narrated through the conversations she has with other women: in private with friends, at late night parties with acquaintances, with strangers in hotel