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The Locals Julianne MacLean Publishing Born in 1912 to an"Summons up a small American town at precisely the right moment in our history . . . a bold, vital, and view expanding novel." George Saunders A rural working class New England town elects as its mayor a New York hedge fund millionaire in this inspired novel for our times fiction in the tradition of Jonathan Franzen and Jennifer Egan. A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK Mark Firth is a contractor and home restorer in Howland, Massachusetts, who feels