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Onlookers: Stories But now the unthinkable has* "Supple, superb." The Boston Globe * "A deft mash of lonesomeness and wit." Chicago Tribune * "Her best in more than two decades." The New York Times * Award winning short story writer Ann Beattie returns with a "sophisticated, idiosyncratic, and witty" (Star Tribune, Minneapolis) collection of linked stories set in Charlottesville, Virginia, in a moment of unrest. Onlookers is collection of extraordinary stories about people living in the same