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Book Club: Jesus' Son, "Beverly Home"

Freddie deBoer
Jan 18
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At last, something like release. It’s the last story in the collection (and thus the end of this book club), and our goodbye to our narrator. True to form, his farewell is both sordid and sublime. For the first time we really feel that the protagonist of Jesus’ Son is going somewhere, and going somewhere good.

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