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title: "The Bell Jar"
type: Book
date: 2016-08-13
year: 1963
rating: 6
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status: Finished
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I read this, as I suspect many others did, on the insistence of Master of None.  It was hard to separate the cut of the meat from the butcher, given Plath’s history, but I keep circling around the central passage of the fig tree which Aziz recites. 