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Perfect Strangers
The Happiest Refugee: A Memoir
The Captain's Daughter
The Trader of Saigon
Someone: A Novel
The Wolves of Midwinter
A Killing of Angels
Gravity of Birds Pb
The Return
The Twenty-Seventh City
The House of Memories
First McInerney. Everything's almost fantasy-like. The perfect uncle. The ideal job for mom. Perfect step-dad. #firstworldproblems. Let's put the heroine in turmoil. Everything seems telegraphed in the book. It comes across as almost bloodless, with so many characters and it's hard to feel anything for any of them. It's all so genteel and civilised. All the loose ends tie up completely and perfectly. Pop psychology tropes are on display.
