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– Charles Malone, author of Working Hypothesis and Questions About Circulation
“Captures the beauty, loneliness, and wonder of a free-range childhood in a deceptively slender collection.”
– Michael Bazzett, Stern Prize-winning author of Cloudwatcher and The Temple
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– Elyse Fenton, Dylan Thomas Prize-winning author of Clamor and Sweet Insurgent
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–Virginia Thayer, Portland Mercury
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–Jonathan Waldman, Colorado Book Award-winning author of Rust: The Longest War
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“Literary-minded essays, poems, and interviews for the silent soldiers of the bicycle army.”
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