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RICHARD RUSSO: If you look back to my earliest fiction, the lens through which I look at the world has really not changed.

And the amazing thing is that this isn't just some far-off science-fiction dream.

Uh like in real life or in fiction?

For this reason, she calls this book — and other romance novels like it — foundational fictions: stories that present romance across social divides as the bedrock for building a country.

Are we resigned to drowning in a sea of unverified claims where we can't really tell truth from fiction?