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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
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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.

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The Empathy Exams: Essays, by Leslie Jamison. Reviewed by Richard Warnica.

Let’s Just Say it Wasn’t Pretty, by Diane Keaton. Reviewed by Christopher Loudon.

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