An accident of timing makes the book in question indelible.

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An accident of timing makes the book in question indelible.

Colson Whitehead

2005

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Serendipity Timing Books

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2005

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Colson Whitehead

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Whitehead, Colson. "The Hum Inside the Skull, Revisited." The New York Times, 16 Jan. 2005.

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An accident of timing makes the book in question indelible. — Colson Whitehead

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