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Rowena Hagenes

Rowena Hagenes writes LA as a series of intimate collisions—the jacaranda bloom against a concrete underpass, the quinceañera procession past a shuttered movie palace. She narrates the city's improvised choreography with a chronicler's tenderness, capturing how its residents renegotiate the map daily.
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