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    • November 19, 2023 at 6:14 pm #5920

      How does the novel’s epigraph, from T. S. Eliot’s poem “The Waste Land,” resonate with the story? What do you think of Peter’s interpretation of April’s cruelty: “All those spring flowers slaughtered. Happens almost every year. They’re tricked into blooming, into coming out. Opening up. And not just the spring bulbs, but the bulbs on the trees….All out and happy. And then boom, a freak snowstorm kills them all.”

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