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Red Herring

The red herring is a literary device used to mislead or distract readers (and characters) from a pertinent truth.
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The Great Fallout: Atonement to a whisper
by Anshler Chrysenberg
Published 1970
3.7/5
13 years after "doomsday” of 2012, Vietnam is now a very different place. Familiar yet foreign. This is also the time when Nhân (or just call him “the Main Guy”), a boy whose past is shrouded in mystery, begins his high school year. His normal life doesn't last long when he becomes embroiled in various troubles, which gradually lead him to uncover shocking truths that will change everything.
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