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Obreht's new novel is Inland.
One of the author's six favorite books shaped by place, as shared at The Week magazine:
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Paper Lantern by Stuart Dybek (2014).Read about the other entries on the list.
Dybek is without equal on a host of different levels. His greatest achievement in this stunner of a story collection centered on his hometown Chicago (about which he writes like no one else) is that he casts a haze between past and present, illusion and reality, then swoops among them all.
--Marshal Zeringue