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Each of the novellas that make up André Aciman’s new book, “ Room on the Sea ,” picks apart the intricacies of how people comprehend the feelings of others—or fail to. In this, they share something with many of the “ Call Me by Your Name ” author’s favorite novels. “The fundamental trait of the novels that I like is that people are always wrong,” Aciman said recently. “My own life has been one of always reading people and mistaking one thing for another, so it has been very useful for me to find that the great novelists I love also seem to have been in a state of perpetu

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