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Watkins has three concerns in life: picking his dad’s Lotto numbers

from country girl to student civil rights organizer to environmental justice champion at Bryan Stevenson’s Equal Justice Initiative

and Magnolia’s rich voice will echo with readers long after the pages are closed” (Shelf Awareness)

Rue's taken from her neighborhood by the father she never knew

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I Cheerfully Refuse General Fiction Watkins has three concerns inA career defining tour de force from New York Times bestselling, award winning and formidably gifted (Chicago Tribune) author of Peace Like a River Leif Enger. A storyteller of great humanity and huge heart (Minneapolis Star Tribune), Leif Enger debuted in the literary world with Peace Like a River which sold over a million copies and captured readers hearts around the globe. Now comes a new milestone in this boldly imaginative authors accomplished,