Swallows History Bluff is a kind of

Bluff is a kind of manifesto about artistic resilience

Ruth Wilson Gilmore

and joins the army as a man

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like her estranged father

Swallows History Bluff is a kind ofThe highly anticipated new novel. When a young single woman in Tokyo decides she's ready to sell anything even her womb to escape the precarity of her life, an agency pairs her with a wealthy couple desperate to have a child. The match seems made in heaven. She even looks a little like the wife. But is anything ever that simple? Nothing has ever gone right for Riki. She left her boring hometown in Hokkaido, where she worked at a nursing home, for a