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Books that capture childhood the way it actually felt

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I'm looking for novels that get childhood right. Not nostalgia, not sentimentality. The weirdness, the loneliness, the small terrors, the moments that don't make sense until you're older. I'm thinking of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels, where kids move through the world with a logic that isn't adult logic. Or Marilynne Robinson's Gilead, where memory becomes [...]

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