Lessons from Julia Otsuka’s WHEN THE EMPEROR WAS DIVINE
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By Kim Lozano • I’m a slow reader. I sometimes pluck a book from the shelf based not on whether its subject matter appeals to me, but whether or not it’s skinny or fat. So when I recently read…