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‘A Registry of My Passage upon the Earth’ is compassionate, wise

In his first book of short stories, novelist and physician Daniel Mason delivers a collection of nine stories that capture extraordinary life experiences. With a range of characters and locales, each tale describes an achievement, an insight, or simply the ability to endure beyond what might have been thought possible. 

A master of descriptive prose, Mason structures many of the stories to complement the content. In

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