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  • Red and black banner image with the cover of A Hostage by Charlotte Mendel on the right and text reading "Excerpt from A Hostage by Charlotte Mendel. What if Voice can’t be shut off? What if I’ve actually gone a tiny bit insane in here?" Open Book logo bottom left
    Red and black banner image with the cover of A Hostage by Charlotte Mendel on the right and text reading "Excerpt from A Hostage by Charlotte Mendel. What if Voice can’t be shut off? What if I’ve actually gone a tiny bit insane in here?" Open Book logo bottom left
    June 27, 2023

    Read an Excerpt from A Hostage by Charlotte Mendel, A Timely Tale of Power, Politics, & Media

    When Charlotte is kidnapped by notorious dictator Kassem in Charlotte Mendel's A Hostage (Inanna Publications), she does what she has to in order to maintain sanity, from creating a compartmentalized ...

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