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On the first page of LaRocca's (Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke) macabre and exquisite fever dream, readers are introduced to Mara, who ominously notes, "From baby teeth to virginity, to live is to regularly suffer loss." Readers are then whisked back to Mara's childhood, to the pivotal day her father's body was returned to their dilapidated apartment in a war-torn neighborhood, where a sewage pipe endlessly drips. In her intense grief, Mara's pregnant mother starts hostin...Log In or Sign Up to Read More