The Audacity.

The Audacity.

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The Audacity.
The Audacity.
Audacious Book Club: Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin
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Audacious Book Club: Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin

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Audacious Book Club: Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin
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In the opening scene of Gretchen Felker-Martin’s debut novel Manhunt, protagonists Beth and Fran are in pursuit of something, and it doesn’t take long to figure out what they’re looking for: a man drinking water from a forest pool “tilting his head back to swallow it like an alligator horking down a fish.” Beth takes the man down quickly—by the top of p…

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