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It's Banned Books Week, and in honor of those titles, we're digging into a recent release to highlight it and share some poignant passages. Today we're looking at Exquisite Things by Abdi Nazemian: Shahriar believes he was born in the wrong time. All he’s ever wanted is to love and be loved, but 1895 London doesn’t offer him the freedom to be his true self, and Oscar Wilde’s trial for gross indecency has only reaffirmed that.