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The only harmless great thing, Brooke Bolander

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The only harmless great thing, Brooke Bolander

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eng

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fiction

Main title

The only harmless great thing

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Brooke Bolander

Summary

Early in the twentieth century, a group of female factory workers in Newark, New Jersey, slowly died of radiation poisoning. Around the same time an Indian elephant was deliberately and publicly put to death by electricity in Coney Island. These are matters of historical fact. Now these two tragedies are intertwined in a dark alternate history of rage, radioactivity, and wrongs crying out to be righted. Brace yourself for a wrenching journey that crosses eras, chronicling cruelties both grand and petty while searching for meaning and justice

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