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wealth can buy when his estranged granddaughter, who has recently and
unexpectedly come to live with him, becomes in a need of a new heart.

Fortune Smiles by Adam Johnson
As poignant as it is tonally diverse, Fortune Smiles—full of pedophiles,
refugees, and digital ghosts—captures the contemporary “realistic”
moment as well as any of our most earnest novels and stories, drone
strikes and absurdity in all. Like his earlier Emporium and his Pulitzerwinning The Orphan Master’s Son, the stories in Fortune
Smiles demand to be torn from the spine and passed lovingly and
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