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Fiction offers escape but it also interrogates the world we live in, whether the past, present or future.

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Roxane Gay
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: October 15
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Scrabble Player
Writer
Omaha
Nebraska
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Past
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