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Harrow

Joy Williams’ slim, wry Harrow is a wonderfully vexing novel whose symbols open up to the real world.

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Review of ‘Harrow’

The title of Pulitzer Prize finalist Joy Williams’ slim, wry novel Harrow, her first in 20 years, resonates through several connotations: to pillage, to plunder, to cultivate with a harrow, to torment, to vex. Indeed, this is a wonderfully vexing novel, one whose symbols open up to the real world.

Khristen is a teenager whose…

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