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A Seedling Grows in Brooklyn

Lily lives a soft life in a hard place. At 16, she has been married off to an older man of her tribe, a volatile tradesman who keeps her in luxury but values her only as a babymaker. Consumed with the materialism of her tiny domain, and absorbed into a circle of similarly cosseted wives, she remains...
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By Peter Marks

 
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