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IN TONGUES: A Novel
by Thomas Grattan
MCD (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). 288 pages, $28.

EVERY SO OFTEN, you find a novel that’s so fun, so substantial and satisfying in every way, that you want to rush right out and tell everyone to read it. Such a novel is Thomas Grattan’s In Tongues.

            As the novel opens, we meet young Gordon, aimless and directionless since being dumped by his boyfriend, as he decides on a whim to completely change his life.

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