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STRANGE FRUIT
Lillian Smith

by Betty Smith · Harper
Francie Nolan and her brother, Neeley, grow up in the slums of Brooklyn in the early 1900s.
by Charles Jackson · Farrar & Rinehart
A would-be writer's dissatisfaction with his life leads him on a three-day binge. This novel gives an uncompromising look at the devastating effects of alcoholism.
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