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This Ames author set her newest novel in Ames and Chicago.The characters are empowered and protected by a substance that makes pigs vomit.

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An Unruly Anthology of Black American Humor,” edited by Damon Young, it might get the last laugh.

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What do you get if you write a book about a comedian who isn’t funny? What Will People Think by Sara Hamdan. Tragically, that joke is about as good as any you’ll read in the novel.You can see how the ...