Author Sophie Lark learned that lesson the hard way. Her next book, Sparrow and Vine, was set to be published by Bloom Books in April this year. However, after a promotional snippet revealed a ...

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The novel, “Sparrow and Vine” by Sophie Lark, was due out in April from Bloom Books. Readers with advance copies criticized passages that they found racist — or that praised Elon Musk.

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McGowan, an expert in capturing the inner lives of young people in fiction, has gone beyond his usual high standards with his latest book. Lark is a life-affirming work. Yet the writer makes it ...