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The Shampoo Effect

by Jenny Jackson

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The Shampoo Effect

by Jenny Jackson

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Genre
Literary Fiction
Published
2026

An ambitious newcomer falls for a local in a tight-knit Massachusetts seaside town and upends it.

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