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Review of ‘World and Town’

Hattie Kong is a Chinese-American descendent of Confucius who lives in a small New England town. How she got there and why she lives alone at age 68, with three dogs and new neighbors—a mysterious and seemingly broken Cambodian family—is the lovely, slowly unfurling story of the latest novel by best-selling author Gish Jen.

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