The Secret
Author: Eva Hoffman
Of course, I’ve always had a secret. Have I always known it? I suppose I did, in a way – in the way that children know such things. That is, I knew and didn’t know-‘In this novel, Eva Hoffman explores various kinds and strata of secrets: intimate secrets, and secrets of family past; the kinds of secrets that can be decoded from clues, and the kind that themselves seem to….Read More
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