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This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz

This Is How You Lose Her

by Junot Diaz
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  • Sep 11, 2012, 224 pages
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  • Sep 2013, 240 pages
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She doesn't.

From This is How You Lose Her © September 2012 by Junot Diaz, published by Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., all rights reserved, reprinted with permission from the publisher.

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