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    Hidden depths

    Jul 04, 2021 2 minutes
    by ALISHA TYSON

    As with the landscapes it explores, Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock’s young-adult novel EVERYONE DIES FAMOUS IN A SMALL TOWN (Faber, $19.99) is about nothing and everything at the same time. It takes readers to secret, beautiful places, down trails that “lead through thick pine and juniper trees”, to lakes where a girl skates backwards because life looks better “in reverse”.

    Although marketed as a

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