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stunningly illustrated exploration of North American wildflowers

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the body of wealthy landowner Jimmy Quinn is found floating in the Alabaster River

Whale Fall North Africa and some of the badTHE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE BOOK A stunning debut from an award winning writer, about loss, isolation, folklore, and the joy and dissonance of finding oneself by exploring life outside one's community "Both blunt and exquisite . . . O'Connor's excellent debut . . . is an example of precisely observed writing that makes a character's specific existence glimmer with verisimilitude." Maggie Shipstead, New York Times Book Review "Whale Fall is