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Today’s teaser is from The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver.

In all, she was an efficient little mechanism, who had her own work and her own friends, and the fact that in Lawrence’s absence she was just fine, thank you very much, provided a mean satisfaction. Still, there was a thin, brittle feeling to this just-fineness, as if she’d turned into one of those dry Scandinavian crispbreads that never have enough salt.

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