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An offbeat novel I couldn't put down, a pleasantly eerie essay, a podcast on a troubling trend, a foot cream

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An offbeat novel, if you like Elif Batuman & Sheila Heti’s Motherhood.

The third illness in four weeks is tearing through our household—it’s hitting me as I type. This time it started with my daughter rather than me, but as the one who is most often inclined to suck the green snot out of her nose, my demise was inevitable.

The one upside of being constan…

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