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Is it just me or are most books now about family in a way that would've been impossible in the 2000s?

Dec 25, 2021
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I had a theory in the early 2000s about Haruki Murakami’s popularity. I’d noticed that in none of his novels did the main protagonist ever indicate the existence of proximate family. Perhaps in passi…

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