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The Stranger's Child
Ever notice how the stories we tell about people—especially the dead—get messier the longer we hang on to them? Alan Hollinghurst’s “The Stranger’s Child” is like peeling back layers of dust on a warped family portrait, revealing how memory, gossip, and time rewrite history. It’s less about what really happened and more about what we want to believe happened.
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