When Escape Leads You Back to Reality

Published: Sept. 20, 2018, 10 a.m.

Gwen and Frank discover two very different alternate worlds that speak to our present times. Their seemingly mismatched books offer stellar writing and clever takes on fantasy, dystopias and cringe-worthy identity politics.\xa0Plus: Frank has some, um...\xa0words\xa0for the author of his book.

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