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  "textContent": "For the unnamed, young protagonist at the start of **Polly Barton** ’s debut novel **What Am I, a Deer?** , life is pretty much mapped out. As foretold during a divination session with schoolmates, she will marry a Frenchman named Bertrand, and the two of them will govern a nudist colony. Except, it doesn’t quite work out like that. Fast-forward a decade and we find her moving to Frankfurt to start a job in translation andhellip;\n\nread more raquo;\n\n\n\n",
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