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Matched by shared attributes: dark & gritty tone, Identity and Survival themes, slow burn pacing, and the same quality of prose.
A brilliant student murders a pawnbroker to prove he is above ordinary morality -- then spends the rest of the novel being destroyed by conscience.
A slave escapes a Georgia plantation via a literal underground railroad -- a network of secret tunnels running beneath the American South -- and discovers that freedom is not a single destination.
Four college friends build lives in New York, but one carries wounds so deep they threaten to pull them all under.
The Joad family loses their Oklahoma farm to the Dust Bowl and drives west to California, where the promised land turns out to be something else entirely.
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