‘Always Brave, Sometimes Kind’ is an ode to community that is warm, gritty and utterly complicated

  Always Brave, Sometimes Kind Katie Bickell, 272 pgs, Touchwood Editions, touchwoodeditions.com, $22 Reading Katie Bickell’s debut novel is a bit like taking a punch in the gut. Always Brav
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