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Author of PAULINA & FRAN and Granta Best Young American Novelist Rachel B. Glaser's 39, set in New York in 2016, which follows three longtime friends through a year of misfortune and misguided decisions, to Emma Chuck at FSG Originals, for publication in spring 2027, by Claudia Ballard at WME (NA).
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