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Ethan Frome
Wharton wrote it at The Mount, ten minutes from town; the landscape outside the window is the book's.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Why we picked it
Didion's California essays read differently with your feet in the actual golden light she was writing about.
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