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Twenty Grand: And Other Tales of Love and Money PB_Gift_Guide the nation’s highest and mostIn this dazzling literary debut, Rebecca Curtis displays the gifts that make her one of the most talented writers of her generation. Her charactersyoung women struggling to find happiness, love, success, security, and adventurewait tables, run away from home, fall for married men, betray their friends, and find themselves betrayed as well. In "Hungry Self," a young waitress descends into the basement of a seemingly ordinary Chinese restaurant; in