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1547:"Here's the shortlist for the Center for Fiction's 2020 First Novel Prize"
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1572:"2021 Literature Award Winners – American Academy of Arts and Letters"
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1313:"In 'How Much Of These Hills Is Gold,' This Land Is Not Your Land"
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1086:"Land, language and legacy in 'How Much of These Hills Is Gold'"
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listed the novel as one of his favorite books of 2020.
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1008:"This Novel Reclaims the Western Expansion Myth"
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