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Know your beholder, by Adam Rapp

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Know your beholder

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by Adam Rapp

As winter deepens in Pollard, Illinois, thirtysomething Francis Falbo is holed up in an attic apartment while recovering from a series of traumas--his mother's death, his beloved wife's desertion, and his once-ascendant rock band's irreconcilable breakup. He hasn't changed out of his bathrobe--the uniform of a life in default--for nine days. All he has left is his childhood home, whose remaining rooms he rents to a cast of eccentric tenants. Francis becomes increasingly entangled in their lives, with results that are disastrous, hysterical, and ultimately healing

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