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In the Wild Light

In the Wild Light is a love letter to possibility, full of gorgeous sentences that read like sweet tea tastes and cotton feels.

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Review of ‘In the Wild Light’

“My life is small and simple, but it’s a better one than I ever thought I’d have,” says Cash, the protagonist of Jeff Zentner’s fourth novel, In the Wild Light. After his best friend, Delaney, discovers a new bacteria in a local cave, she becomes a scientific sensation and nabs a scholarship to a fancy…

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