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"The first movement tells the story of Edie Metzger, a little Jewish girl who bit Hermann Göring's lip so hard it bled at a Nazi book-burning rally in 1933. In the second, in 1956, grown Edie is the passenger clinging to the backseat of the Oldsmobile 88 convertible driven by Jackson Pollock, moments before it plunges off the road. In the third, the narrative embarks into an ever-unspooling universe of Edies that might have lived--Edie's gender,...
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Eleven-year-old Allen and his grandmother are moving to a little town in rural New York, but the quiet countryside does not stop the recurring nightmare that plagues him--until an encounter with a llama recalls a language Allen did not know he could speak, and unveils the memory of his parents' fate.