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A boy's coming-of-age is upended by a mysterious new friend who pulls him toward a darker, truer sense of self. By Hermann Hesse.

A memoir of the year after her husband's sudden death, and the strange logic grief imposes on the mind. By Joan Didion.

Two spare, unflinching accounts of desire and an illegal abortion in 1960s France, from the Nobel laureate. By Annie Ernaux. Both novellas are short, so we're reading them together for this one meetup.