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Winner of the 2018 national book award and a new york times bestseller. In her most recent novel, the last of her kind, forthcoming from farrar, straus and giroux this month, nunez continues her exploration of identity through the. The last of her kind by nunez in doc, fb3, rtf download ebook. Her confident and direct style upliftsthe music in her sentences, her deep and. The last of her kind is partly about the special bond that can form between young people who meet when they leave home for college.
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