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/Lilliet Berne, hero of Alexander Chee's highly-anticipated new novel Queen of the Night, enjoys the glamorous life of a diva -- but what's below the surface is both more sordid and more tragic.
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/Robyn Cadwallader centers her debut novel on a young nun who volunteers to be walled away from all human contact for the rest of her life. Such women existed and, surprisingly, their lives were enormously full.
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