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I write the Fiction Chronicle for the Wall Street Journal and am an editor at Open Letters Review (formerly Open Letters Monthly). sam_sacks at hotmail dot com.
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Fiction: Chad Harbach’s ‘The Brightness’

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By Sam Sacks Verified
| The Wall Street Journal Verified
Plus ‘Dodge City’ by Patrick deWitt. In Chad Harbach’s “The Brightness” (Little, Brown, 672 pages, $32), Pella Affenlicht makes a comparison she hopes will resonate with the men with whom she’s conversing. Being a woman, she explains, is like being an athlete: Competition is fierce, and one’s prime is cruelly brief. “You keep one eye on the clock—your time is running out before it begins.
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Fiction: ‘The Spirits’ by Bonnie Jo Campbell

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By Sam Sacks Verified
| The Wall Street Journal Verified
Plus ‘Last Day of a Prior Life’ by Andrés Barba and ‘May We Feed the King’ by Rebecca Perry. Everyone knows that politics and religion are off-limits as discussion topics at holiday gatherings, but for the Whitby children in Bonnie Jo Campbell’s “The Spirits” (Norton, 256 pages, $27.99) there is another, highly specific prohibition: No one is allowed to talk about the Christmas Eve when their drunken, abusive father was killed by a lightning strike in their backyard.
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Fiction: 'Soldiers & Sailors' by Terrence Holt

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By Sam Sacks Verified
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Hypnopompic hallucinations are what specialists call the unreal things people see or hear during the transition from sleep to waking. In Terrence Holt's debut novel, “Soldiers & Sailors” (Liveright, 432 pages, $31.99) , the phenomenon offers the only diagnosis Dr. Hal Adams can think to give a military veteran who claims to hear the Marines' Hymn every night while he sleeps. “I had a whole career of reveille,” the man complains.
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