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Planes (2022)
Peter C Baker
"This novel stunned me with its gravity and its wisdom, its sense of life's turbulence and mystery. Baker is an absolutely brilliant writer--in league with Ferrante and DeLillo--with a deep understanding of the interwoven, interconnected web that holds the entire world in its grasp. He also has a novelist's eye for the moment at hand, how it spreads and fills with love and stops time. I was reminded again that all our great novels are about human decisions. In this book, stretching from Rome to the suburban meeting rooms of a North Carolina school board, an almost unbearable suspense is generated by incredibly good and incredibly bad decisions. In Baker's hands, an endlessly interesting, somewhat treacherous truth emerges; we are implicated in each other's lives, and all drink from the same rich and complex well."
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