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Ways of Going Home

by Alejandro Zambra

Farrar. 2013. 160p. tr. from Spanish by Megan McDowell. ISBN 9780374286644. $23; pap. ISBN 9780374534356. $14. CHILE

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A writer returns to his boyhood home in hopes of rekindling an earlier romance and reconnecting with his family, only to find that it's not easy to go home again.

Reviewed by Lawrence Olszewksi , Oct 01, 2014

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