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Schoenbrun has called together the dreams and tribulations of a dimension of peoples—long erased, long maligned, too often brutalized, heroically resisting—and made them real.”—Junot Diaz,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(Editors’ Choice)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Beautiful, funny, and scathing . . . 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