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11 Experiments That Failed

CRITICS HAVE SAID

Offill’s matter-of-fact recounting make for very funny reading and allow Carpenter to go all out with her collages, which create especially lively depictions of the protagonist’s misadventures (and her mother’s horror).–Publishers Weekly

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