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  "textContent": "Opening the pages of Polly Barton’s debut novel, _What Am I, A Deer?_ , you’re greeted with a breathlessly recounted anecdote of the narrator performing Céline Dion at a school show in a gold satin nightie. With both immediacy and the cooler reflections of hindsight, Barton sets a tone that is confessional and clinical, dissecting and shameless.\n\nThis is Barton’s first novel, though she is an established translator of Japanesehellip;\n\nread more raquo;\n\n\n\n",
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