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Go Gentle

by Maria Semple

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Book of the Day, NPR · April 27, 2026

In Maria Semple’s 'Go Gentle,' a surprise love interest upends a Stoic life

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A novel following Adora Hazzard, a content divorced Stoic philosopher in her late 50s working as a moral trainer to the tweens of a wealthy Manhattan family, whose orderly life is upended when a chance encounter at the ballet draws her into a world of secrecy, black-market art, and international intrigue.

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