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Manic creations: Lost Empress: A Protest, by Sergio De La Pava, reviewed

20 October 2018

9:00 AM

20 October 2018

9:00 AM

American mass-incarceration is the most overt object of the ‘protest’ of this novel’s subtitle. The author, Sergio De La Pava, works as a public defender in New York City, and calls on an intimate secondhand knowledge of the many different sorrows to be found in the ripples of a single criminal case.

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