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A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles
The most quietly joyful book I've read in years. It's about a man who loses everything — freedom, status, the world — and responds with elegance and curiosity. Towles writes with such warmth. I read it during a strange, stuck period of my own life and it did something useful to me.
★★★★½4.5
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stayed with me