When Alexander Cold's mother falls ill, the fifteen-year-old is sent to stay with his eccentric grandmother in New York. A tough and prickly magazine reporter, Kate Cold takes Alex along with her

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Born into a poor family in Spain, Inés Suárez, finds

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“Oates is a master of the dark tale—stories of the hunted and the hunter, of violence, trauma, and deep psychic

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