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Maclean’s books: Your weekend reading awaits
This week’s reviews: secret archives in Guatemala, an ark story before Noah, and Diane Keaton’s musings on beauty
BOOK REVIEWS
The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories, by Marina Keegan. Reviewed by Shanda Deziel.
The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood, by Irving Finkel. Reviewed by Patricia Treble.
Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala, by Kirsten Weld. Reviewed by Brian Bethune.
The Empathy Exams: Essays, by Leslie Jamison. Reviewed by Richard Warnica.
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Let’s Just Say it Wasn’t Pretty, by Diane Keaton. Reviewed by Christopher Loudon.
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