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May 3, 2012‘The Weight of a Human Heart’ by Ryan O’Neill
The 21 stories in Ryan O’Neill’s new collection are tied together by a preoccupation with language. There are books, magazines, word games, phonetics, grammar lessons, miscommunications, translations on every page. The world exists insofar as it exists …