Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead (34 page)

We all want to be someone else. And sometimes we succeed in convincing ourselves we can be.

But it doesn't last, and our own true selves, broken and scarred, always win out in the end.

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S
ARA
G
RAN
is the author of five critically acclaimed novels, including
Come Closer
and
Dope
as well as the Claire DeWitt series. She also writes for film and TV (including TNT's
“Southland”
) and has published in the
New York Times
, the
New Orleans Times Picayune
, and
USA Today
. She is a former bookseller and a native of Brooklyn.