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Sarah Gerard's BINARY STAR a Finalist for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize!
Sarah Gerard's Binary Star was one of the hottest books of 2015—named one of the best books of the year by NPR, Vanity Fair, Flavorwire, BuzzFeed, and Largehearted Boy—flagged as "genius" by the New York Times Book Review—and today it has been named a finalist for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction category.
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Sarah Gerard's Binary Star was one of the hottest books of 2015—named one of the best books of the year by NPR, Vanity Fair, Flavorwire, BuzzFeed, and Largehearted Boy—flagged as "genius" by the New York Times Book Review—and today it has been named a finalist for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction category.
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