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There been a wave of fiction about an insomnia epidemic, as if some collective anxiety is bubbling up. Most recently, Kenneth Calhoun Black Moon freaked us out. But Karen Russell new novella Sleep Donation is still something pretty unique: a look at people in the nonprofit sector, struggling with insoluble ethics.
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