If you are like me, your best shot at end-of-a-hard-day escape isn't TV. It's a book.
Fiction, in particular, is what you run to when you're up to your ears in what's thought of as "real life." It's where you go to wander around in a very different world for a while.
But there's a growing sense among readers, and among some reviewers, that a well-written piece of fiction is one that works overtime in depicting details of its place and time.
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