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The "best woman" in her brother's wedding tells a little white lie in her quest to get the girl--her lifelong crush and the maid of honor--in this wildly entertaining debut novel about bad decisions and life's messiest transitions

A Bomb Placed Close to the Heart: A Novel Board Games a revelatory exploration of theAn expansive and poignant novel of love, radical ambition, and intellectual rebirth set at the dawn of World War I At a party near Stanford University's campus in 1917, Cora Trent, a graduate student raised in the rugged mining towns of the American West, meets Indra Mukherjee, an Indian revolutionary newly arrived in California. Indra is grieving the recent loss of a friend and unsure of the place violence has in the cause of national liberation,