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After an appealing journey into the past, horn should have left her readers in the presentrather, her final chapter is a confusing and corny look into the world to come. She lives in new jersey with her husband and four children. I have never before felt like a book was written for me, but the world to come. His novels, including the mezzanine, vox, and house of holesa. Dara horn, the author of the novels all other nights, the world to come, and in the image, is one of grantas best young american novelists and the winner of two national jewish book awards. The unlikely thief, former child prodigy benjamin ziskind, is convinced that the painting once hung in his parents living room.
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