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appealing due to its depiction of the contentious relationship between a father and daughter, and characterizes the father, Sloper, as "one of James's most honest characters". After the conversation with Hohlt, Yanagihara began writing a work set in an alternate reality in which same-sex marriage was
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David worries about remaining a bachelor all his life. He is introduced to
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in the United States, referring to it as "just randomly switching stuff around". Sacks compared the presence and purpose of the speculative history unfavorably to explorations of gender, sexuality, and related themes in other works – including
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