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Tag: a guide to being born

Posted inLiterature

Western Lit: ‘A Guide to Being Born’ Transports Readers Into a Playfully Mysterious World

by Jenny Shank October 5th, 2013December 16th, 2020

When an innovative style is a writer’s main goal, emotional subtleties tend to fall by the wayside. However, Ramona Ausubel, raised in New Mexico and now based here in California, crafts literary fiction that manages to keep out the chill: The stories in A Guide to Being Born have a lot of heart, and their […]

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