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I can imagine readers being either enthralled or put off by the book, which offers no reader any middle ground. Interestingly, it has a lot in common with jarmans movie too and for reasons other than obsessive erotic fixations with beautiful blond men. Please note that the lexile measures for a small population of books have been recently updated. As meat loves salt is a dark, brutal, intelligent, and moving novel.
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