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Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil are like the pieces ofFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo and the story collection Tenth of December, a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction. Welcome to Inner Horner, a nation so small it can only accommodate one citizen at a time. The other six citizens must wait their turns in the Short Term Residency Zone of the surrounding country of Outer Horner. It's a long standing arrangement between the