Nancy Pearl says it may look like sci-fi, but you can't tell a book by its cover

Update: 2016-11-22

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Award winning short story writer Nina Allan has just published her first novel. Although bookstores and libraries may file it in the science fiction/fantasy section, librarian Nancy Pearl tells KUOW's Marcie Sillman that Allan's book "The Race" is best described as experimental fiction.

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Nancy Pearl says it may look like sci-fi, but you can't tell a book by its cover

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Nancy Pearl says it may look like sci-fi, but you can't tell a book by its cover

Marcie Sillman

Nancy Pearl says it may look like sci-fi, but you can't tell a book by its cover