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The Book of Salt
Bình, a Vietnamese cook in 1920s Paris, lives in the shadows of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas’s literary salons. His story cuts through the glamour to reveal a tangled mix of exile, identity, and longing. It’s a salty, simmering portrait of what it means to be unseen in a world that prizes visibility.
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