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title: "The Sorrows of an American"
author: "Siri Hustvedt"
genre: "Mystery & Thriller, Literary"
category: "Literary Fiction"
themes: "The nature of memory and the past;Trauma and its individual and collective effects;The blending of fiction and nonfiction (metafiction);Love, loss, and the boundaries of perception"
asin: "0312428200"
bnid: "1100353835"
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# The Sorrows of an American

## Context
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