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Mar 12, 2007 fiction the postbirthday world by lionel shriver517 pages. Marge piercy was born in detroit, michigan, into a workingclass family that had been hardhit by the depression. Using a playful paralleluniverse structure, the postbirthday world follows one womans future as it unfolds under the. In this eagerly awaited new novel, lionel shriver, the orange prizewinning author of the international bestseller we need to talk about kevin, delivers an imaginative and entertaining look at the implications, large and small, of whom we choose to love. The postbirthday world by lionel shriver book club.
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