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Random House

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Everybody Says It’s Everything

In Everybody Says It’s Everything, Xhenet Aliu returns to the small-town Connecticut setting of her debut novel, Brass, to deliver the story of a family who seem to have little in common with one another.

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When Drita hears news of Nadia’s passing, she doesn’t imagine the death will set her life in a new direction. Nadia is the mother of her estranged twin’s girlfriend, and the grandmother of a nephew she scarcely knows. But upon discovering her nephew and his mother in Nadia’s filthy, abandoned apartment, Drita will find herself…

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