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Fuse Books: Notable Volumes, For Better or Worse, in 2015

Our demanding critics supply lists of books that piqued their interest this of the year.

In this powerful novel, Vietnamese-American writer Viet Thanh Nguyen shakes up stereotypical notions of the War in Vietnam.

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