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Teju Cole Knows His New Novel Resembles Autofiction. Please Don’t Be Tempted.

October 16, 2023

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“Tremor,” his first novel in over a decade, is set in Massachusetts and Lagos, and came from a desire to capture the last moments of a pre-Covid world.

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Teju Cole Knows His New Novel Resembles Autofiction. Please Don’t Be Tempted.

“Tremor,” his first novel in over a decade, is set in Massachusetts and Lagos, and came from a desire to capture the last moments of a pre-Covid world.

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