{"id":30504,"date":"2024-10-13T12:31:07","date_gmt":"2024-10-13T16:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ethanhein.com\/wp\/?p=30504"},"modified":"2024-10-13T12:31:07","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T16:31:07","slug":"we-were-pretending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ethanhein.com\/wp\/2024\/we-were-pretending\/","title":{"rendered":"We Were Pretending"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

This is a break from my usual topics to let you know that my friend Hannah Gersen<\/a> recently published her second novel<\/a>. I am about a third of the way in, and I can already tell you that you should read it. The story concerns the US military’s surprising interest in new age medicine. The narrator (like the author) shares my climate despair.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

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Hannah has a straightforward and undemonstrative prose style that gets at big emotional and political themes without melodrama. If I wrote novels, this is how I would want to write them. Also, Hannah has a suggested reading list<\/a> to go along with the book. I have read a few of the titles on it, and that makes me want to read the rest of them.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a break from my usual topics to let you know that my friend Hannah Gersen recently published her second novel. I am about a third of the way in, and I can already tell you that you should read it. The story concerns the US military’s surprising interest in new age medicine. The … <\/p>\n

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