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⭐️⭐️⭐️½ The Secret Courtesan is a novel with big intentions and a clear love for the kind of historical fiction that asks difficult questions about women, power, and who gets remembered. From the outset, Kerry Chaput establishes a richly textured world. One where reputation is currency, silence is survival, and identity is something that can
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Sheila Heti’s Motherhood is an introspective, meandering meditation on one of the most fundamental questions a woman can ask herself: Should I have a child? Blending fiction, memoir, and philosophical inquiry, Heti crafts a novel that is less a traditional narrative and more an intellectual and emotional exploration of what it means to be a
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