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  • Published 20250805
  • ISBN: 978-1-923213-10-4
  • Extent: 236pp
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WHEN SHE HEARD the knock on the bathroom door, she jumped. Her husband rarely interrupted her while she was inside. 

‘What is it?’ she asked.

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Jessie Tu

Jessie Tu is the author of the novels A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing (2020), which won the 2021 ABIA Literary Fiction Book...

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