Planets

Jennifer Finney Boylan, James Finney Boylan. Vintage Books USA, $10 (265pp) ISBN 978-0-679-73906-7

This humorous, unconventional novel is set in Centralia, Pa., where Nature is in chaos, sulfurous fumes from mine fires fill the air and seemingly random events are cosmically interrelated. (Apr.)

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