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    8. A Fracture

    8/9Joe follows the opening of a public memorial and engages with a private reckoning.

    7. The City Forgets

    7/9Joe traces a family history left out of his great-grandfather’s memoir.

    6. Tranquility

    6/9Joe's great-grandfather settles in the United States where his mental health deteriorates.

    5. The Road Through the Mountains

    5/9Joe’s great-grandfather's letters, lead him to the silenced history of a massacre.

    4. Young Republic

    4/9Joe travels to Turkey where his great-grandfather was employed, it seems, making gas masks

    3. Lost

    4/9Joe's research leads him to the remains of an old chemical weapons factory.

    2. The Quiet Town by the River

    3/9Dangers lurk beneath the soil, in the town where Joe's great-grandfather worked.

    1. Daughter of Radium

    2/9Hidden on page 1692 of his great-grandfather's memoir, Joe Dunthorne finds a confession.

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    1/9Hidden in an unpublished family memoir, the writer Joe Dunthorne discovers a confession.