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The Transformations
by Andrew Pippos

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Alison Huber, Oct 2025

I have such a strong memory of reading an advance copy of Andrew Pippos’s debut novel, Lucky’s, in the middle of the difficult year that was 2020. It picked me up by the bootstraps and reminded me during those…

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