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By Meredith Bryan 12/11/08 4:49pm

Postcards From the Past

This One Is Mine
By Maria Semple
Little, Brown, 289 pages, $24.99

At the beginning of Maria Semple’s debut novel, This One Is Mine, multimillionaire L.A. music executive David Parry checks his brokerage account and finds it “up from yesterday, and the Dow was down eighty points.” He muses privately that “the hard part wasn’t Read More

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