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A mind-blowing murder mystery on a ship full of magical passengers

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Somebody Else Sold the World Lynn Painter or is the entire planetA resonant new collection on love and persistence from the author of The Big Smoke, a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize The poems in Adrian Matejka's newest and fifth collection, Somebody Else Sold the World, meditate on the ways we exist in an uncontrollable world: in love and its aftermaths, in families that divide themselves, in protest filled streets, in isolation as routines become obsolete because of lockdown orders and