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Its Minnesota moments make it especially compelling for those of us who live here, especially if we grew up in small towns, where nothing, but everything, happened to us.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cxml\u003e \u003c\/xml\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAfter the Parade\u003c\/i\u003e is a sprawling, hefty narrative — deeply sad and profoundly moving — and its prose is like a second protagonist: Vibrant, living and practically lifting off the page.\" \u003cxml\u003e\u003c\/xml\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I would recommend this book to anyone who loves character-driven fiction. It has the two things that I look for in a novel: wonderful writing and three-dimensional characters.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cxml\u003e \u003c\/xml\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAfter the Parade\u003c\/i\u003e is remarkable both for the clarity and precision of Lori Ostlund's writing and her seemingly clairvoyant empathy for the misfits of the world: the different, the foreign, the gay, the bullied, the lonely. 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