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author of Scandal at the Alphorn Factory

and burying dead racehorses

is a social justice facilitator focused on black liberation

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as devastating as it is awe-inspiring

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A new reissue of Babitz’s collection of nine stories that look back on the 1980s and early 1990s―decades of dreams