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And Again by Jessica Chiarella
4.0

This might be a 3.5 rounded up? Not sure. I definitely have some gripes with this story, but I really enjoyed a lot of what it explored.

My gripes are that I think I could’ve done without Connie or David. Their stories were the least interesting to me. I also felt like if this was really a lottery (minus David), shouldn’t this group be a little more diverse? Like, include poor people? Connie is sort of recently poor but also a celebrity and turns back to that career afterward. Hannah should’ve been poor but somehow wasn’t