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These Discomforting Truths: On Yxta Maya Murray’s “The World Doesn’t Work that Way, but It Could”
J. David Gonzalez reviews Yxta Maya Murray’s new collection of short stories, “The World Doesn’t Work that Way, but It Could.”
J. David Gonzalez
J. David Gonzalez is a writer and former bookseller living in Los Angeles. He is also the publisher of Breaking and Entering, a quarterly journal dedicated to stories that explore the boundaries of genre fiction.
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