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10. Mary Coin by Marisa Silver Do you mind if I take your picture? In 1936 photographer Dorothea Lange focused her lens on the exhausted face of a migrant woman, a mother of seven displaced by the Dust Bowl and caught in the downward spiral of the Great Depression. In this iconic image, caught in a quicksilver moment, using a new technology, two women - photographer and subject - were linked forever. Thats the set-up for Silvers elegantly written third novel. She braids together the stories of US government photographer Vera Dare (a proxy for Lange), her subject Mary Coin - the Oklahoma-born m