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The global Artificial Lift Market is projected to reach USD 9.0 billion in 2028 from USD 7.3 billion in 2023 at a CAGR of 4.4% according to a new report by MarketsandMarkets™.

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Global Artificial Lift Market is projected to reach USD 16.2 billion by 2027

VynZ Research provides a market overview of the current environment as well as the industry's future growth in the Global Artificial LiftMarket. It uses data from annual reports, product literature, industry developments, and other sources to conduct a quantitative market study. The industry's future growth prospects are based on a rapid quantitative and qualitative assessment of data from various sources.

The Global Artificial Lift Market is projected to reach USD 16.2 billion by 2027, witnessing a CAGR of 6.5% during the forecast period 2021-2027. To assist companies in developing their business plans, the research examines the major factors influencing the growth of the Global Artificial Lift Market, also including Drivers, Constraints, Governmental Policies, Opportunities, Challenges, a Constructive Approach, and Market Economic Expansion Strategies.

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Artificial Lift Market | Expected to Expand at a Steady CAGR through 2030

As per the analysis by Market Research Future Reports (MRFR), the global artificial lift market is estimated to expand at a CAGR of 5.63% during the review period. The global artificial market 2020 is expanding because of the rise in shale oil and gas production and a decline in oil reservoirs. The rising inclination towards optimization and an increasing number of mature oil fields are estimated to be key factors of expansion. Besides, the decline in the price of oil is also likely to increase the demand for production-based services such as artificial lift, pressure pumping, and better oil recovery in comparison to drilling services. Moreover, re-development of mature oilfields and growing offshore oil and gas discoveries are other factors that are estimated to present business opportunities to the global artificial lift market. However, lack of expertise and stagnant cost of oil are the factors that may restrict the expansion of the market.

The sudden outbreak of COVID-19 has brought a significant change in market dynamics. We will provide COVID-19 impact analysis with report.

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Market Segmentation

The global artificial lift market can be segregated on the basis of application, type, mechanism, and region.

On the basis of application, the global artificial lift market can be segregated into offshore and onshore. The onshore government is estimated to lead the global artificial lift market.

On the basis of type, the global artificial lift market can be segregated into ESP, gas lift, PCP, rod lift, and others.

On the basis of mechanism, the global artificial lift market can be segregated into gas-assisted and pump assisted. Pump assisted segment is likely to acquire the largest share.

On the basis region, the global artificial lift market can be segregated into North America, Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East & Africa, and South America.

Regional Analysis

The geographical analysis of North America, Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East & Africa, and South America has been conducted. As per the analysis, North America is estimated to acquire the largest market share during the forecast period. The market in the region is propelling due to the increasing number of mature oilfields and the rising shale gas production in the region. In the North American market, the U.S. plays a key role in regional expansion. The production of oil in the U.S is supplying crude oil to more than 10% of the world. In North America, rod lift is estimated to lead the artificial lift market.

On the other hand, the Middle East & Africa is estimated to expand at the fastest rate during the review period. The region is propelling due to the presence of a large number is reservoirs in the Middle East & Africa region. Additionally, there is also the presence of mature fields that are likely to influence the expansion of the artificial lift market in the Middle East & Africa.

Key Players

The forefront players of the global artificial lift market are Schlumberger (U.S.), Halliburton (U.S.), Weatherford (U.S.), National Oilwell Varco, Inc. (U.S.), G.E. Oil & Gas (U.S.), Borets International Limited (UAE), Flotek Industries, Inc. (U.S.), Dover Corporation (U.S.), J.J. Tech (U.S.), AccessESP (U.S.), John Crane Group (U.S.), OILSERV (UAE), among others.

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May 2020

Baker Hughes, the U.S. based company, has announced to sell its Lufkin rod lift solutions business to the U.S. based company, KPS Capital Partners. By the mid of 2020, assets of the Lufkin rod lift business will transfer to an affiliate of KPS, including personnel. Lufkin’s power transmission business will remain part of the Baker Hughes Portfolio.

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coltermartinez · 11 months

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Artificial Lift Systems Market Insights: Leveraging Trends and Profitable Business Opportunities 2018 to 2027

Recent report published by research nester titled “Global Artificial Lift Systems Market Analysis & Opportunity Outlook 2027″ delivers detailed overview of the global artificial lift systems market in terms of market segmentation by mechanism, by types, by components and by region.

Further, for the in-depth analysis, the report encompasses the industry growth drivers, restraints, supply and demand risk, market attractiveness, BPS analysis and Porter’s five force model. The global artificial lift systems market is segmented by types including rod lift, electrical submersible pump (ESP), progressive cavity pump (PCP), gas lift and others. Among these segments, electrical submersible pump segment is expected to showcase great potential during the forecast period.

These pumps are electrically powered and good for high-rate wells. Moreover, advantages of electrical submersible pumps such as electricity operated, low noise, good obtrusiveness and others are fuelling the growth of this segment during the forecast period.

The global artificial lift systems market will register a CAGR of 10% by 2027. The market was valued at USD 13 Billion market in the year 2017. The increasing demand from oil and natural gas industry will be one of the key factors that will determine the growth of this market in the upcoming years. Rising demand and consumption for natural gas and crude oils are increasing the need to maximize production in high pressure oil & gas wells as well as low pressure oil & gas wells. Moreover, lack of natural pressure at some of the natural reservoirs is fuelling the demand for artificial lift systems to augment production.

The North America captured around 70% share of overall artificial lift system market in 2014. According to U.S. department of energy, U.S. was the leading producer and consumer of petroleum and natural gas in 2016. Moreover, U.S. accounted for 15% share of world total oil production (14.85 million barrels per day) in 2016. Get Sample PDF Brochure:@ https://www.researchnester.com/sample-request-1234

Rising Offshore and Ultra-Deep Offshore Oil Production

According to U.S. Energy Information Administration, global offshore oil production from deep water reached 9.3 Million barrels per day. Further, increasing deep water offshore oil production (including lease condensate and hydrocarbon gas liquids) due to increasing consumption and demand of energy is anticipated to increase the demand for artificial lift systems in near future.

Growing Need to Improve Production Efficiency

Increasing consumption of energy is a major concern which is fuelling the need to increase the production of natural resources. Further, demand for artificial lift systems is anticipated to rise in near future due to growing need to increase the natural pressure at oil & gas wells in order to increase the production.

Although, limited resources availability to put more efforts to extract oil and gas from existing wells and shortage of skilled labor force are likely to inhibit the growth of the artificial lift systems market in the near future.

This report also provides the existing competitive scenario of some of the key players of the global artificial lift systems market which includes company profiling of Baker Hughes Incorporated, Cameron International Corporation, Flotek Industries, Inc., Halliburton Company, J&J Technical Services LLC, Dover Corporation, General Electric Company, John Crane Group, Kudu Industries, Inc., Borets Company LLC.

The profiling enfolds key information of the companies which encompasses business overview, products and services, key financials and recent news and developments. On the whole, the report depicts detailed overview of the global artificial lift systems market that will help industry consultants, equipment manufacturers, existing players searching for expansion opportunities, new players searching possibilities and other stakeholders to align their market centric strategies according to the ongoing and expected trends in the future. Know more about the complete study@ https://www.researchnester.com/reports/artificial-lift-systems-market/1234

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joeypetter · 2 years

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Global Artificial Lift System Market Challenges, Developments, Drivers, Restraints and Forecast 2022-2030| By R&I

The report is titled as ‘Artificial Lift System Market: Opportunity Analysis and Future Assessment 2020-2028’. An overview of conceptual frameworks, analytical approaches of the artificial lift system market is the main objective of the report, which further consists the market opportunity and insights of the data involved in the making of the respective market. The artificial lift system market is expected to grow at significant rate in the near future.

The global artificial lift system market in 2020 is estimated for more than US$ 7.9 Bn and expected to reach a value of US$ 11.7 Bn by 2028 with a significant CAGR of 5.0%.

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Artificial Lift System Introduction

In the present-day world, the production technique for extracting oil and other natural resources from wells is much advanced and efficient as the artificial lift system (AL) serves its utility in optimizing the production method in a more effective manner than the traditional techniques.

Basically, the artificial lift is an extraction technique that sinks the producing Bottom Hole Pressure (BHP) on the formation to acquire a much larger production rate from the well. Owing to this, the artificial lift system is grasping applications progressively across the globe. Therefore, the global artificial lift system market is projected to grow rapidly in the forthcoming years.

Noticeably, the artificial lift system backs gas and oil to move upward when the natural force is not sufficient to drive the oil to the surface, which conclusively makes the procedure easier and efficient, thereby adding to its benefits.

Artificial Lift System Market Dynamics

In the modern-day world, the surging oil exploration activities or activities such as the recovery of hydrocarbon resources from the reservoir occurs more frequently all across the world, which is majorly projected to boost the growth of the global artificial lifts system market in the upcoming future.

Along with that, the artificial lift system is considered a more productive and efficient technique over the natural Bottomhole Pressure Method, which further flourishes the growth of the global artificial lift system market.

On top of that, like all the other industry, this industry is also inclined towards modernizing and adopting technologically advanced products and equipment in order to optimize all the procedures, which in turn acts as one of the major drivers that is estimated to further propel the growth of the artificial lift system market during the forecast period.

By the same token, the growing need of technological advancements in the techniques coupled with the soaring demand for petrochemicals and energy all across the world is also expected to positively fuel the growth of the global artificial lift system market in the near future.

Furthermore, the climbing count of wells that require artificial support or propulsion for extraction across the world is also expected to augment the growth of the global artificial lift system market in the coming years.

MMC Overview on Artificial Lift System Market Report

The non-identical approach of Reports and Insights stands with conceptual methods backed up with the data analysis. The novel market understanding approach makes up the standard of the assessment results that give better opportunity for the customers to put their effort.

A research report on the Artificial Lift System market by Reports and Insights is an in-depth and extensive study of the market based on the necessary data crunching and statistical analysis. It provides a brief view of the dynamics flowing through the market, which includes the factors that supports market and the factors that are acting as impedance for the growth of the market.

Furthermore, the report includes the various trends and opportunities in the respective market in different regions for a better understanding of readers that helps to analyze the potential of the market.

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Artificial Lift System Market Segmentation

The artificial lift system market is segmented on the basis of actuation mode, component, and region.

By Actuation Mode

Pump Assisted Artificial Lift System

Rod Pump

Hydraulic Piston System

Electrical Submersible Pump (ESP)

Progressive Cavity Pump

Gas Assisted Artificial Lift System

Gas Lift

Plunger Lift

By Component

Pump

Motor

Cable System

Drive Head

Separator

Pump Jack

Sucker Rod

Gas-lift Valves

Gas-lift Mandrels

Controller

Others

By Region

North America

Latin America

Europe

Asia Pacific

Middle East

Africa

Artificial Lift System Market Key Players

Some of the key participating players in artificial lift system market are:

Baker Hughes

Dover Artificial Lift

Flotek Industries, Inc.

Halliburton Company

Kudu Industries

Schlumberger Ltd.

Weatherford International

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Artificial lift refers to the use of manual methods to increase the flow of liquid (eg, crude oil or water) from a production well. Typically, this is achieved by using a mechanical device (called a pump or velocity column) in the well or by injecting gas into the liquid at a distance down the well to reduce the weight of the still water column.

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dsiddhant · 9 months

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The global Artificial Lift Market is projected to reach USD 9.0 billion in 2028 from USD 7.3 billion in 2023 at a CAGR of 4.4% according to a new report by MarketsandMarkets™.

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blogaarti · 2 years

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Artificial Lift System Market : Top Factors That Are Leading The Demand Around The Global

In the past few decades, crude oil and petroleum reserves have been diminishing at a steady pace. Meanwhile, the demand for energy has exhibited paced increase across the globe. Such stark discrepancy between the demand and supply of energy has incentivised the stakeholders to seek unconventional sources of oil and gas. Unconventional sources such as shale oil and gas, coal-bed methane, and oil sands require more sophisticated means of drilling due to lower natural pressure. The global artificial lift system market is expected to flourish in the coming years as these systems are specifically built to extract resources in absence of natural pressure. In addition, the global unconventional natural gas output is projected to reach a staggering amount of 1.9 trillion cubic meters by 2050. This points to the presence of countless opportunities present in the global artificial lift system market in the coming years.

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Growing Demand for Unconventional Sources of Energy to Accelerate Market Growth

Globally, the consumption of energy has been growing exponentially while the traditional sources of energy such as petroleum and coal are beginning to deplete. Under such circumstances, stakeholders are exploring unconventional sources of fossil fuels. Resources such as shale oil, shale gas, oil sands, and coal-bed methane require extra effort during extraction. To this end, the demand for artificial lift systems has grown by leaps and bounds owing to their effectiveness in overcoming such challenges. Today, approximately two-thirds of the total oil production worldwide comes from mature fields that have low natural pressure. Artificial lift systems are required for extraction in such conditions, creating considerable possibilities for the expansion of global artificial lift system market.

Robust Offshore Drilling Activities to Open New Avenues for Growth in Global Artificial Lift System Market

Consistently diminishing energy resources have coerced industry players to adopt novel techniques for extraction. This has created headways in the offshore drilling segment as this exploration activity is expected to increase during the study period. Hydraulic pumping, electrical submersible pumps (ESP), progressing cavity pumps (PCP), and gas lift are some of the common artificial lift systems used for offshore exploration. As these are vastly undiscovered reserves, market players have to dedicate extra efforts while discovering viable sources. As a result, offshore projects require considerably bigger investments in comparison to onshore projects. The growing fuel demands and uncharted territory of offshore exploration are creating significant economic opportunities in the global artificial lift system market.

North America to Emerge as Dominant Region Owing to Paced Demand for Shale Oil

The artificial lift system market in North America is expected to offer lucrative business possibilities owing to increasing fossil fuel exploration and production activities. The recent discovery of shale reserves in North America has attracted tremendous interest from market players. Large multi-well complex projects are being proposed and artificial lift systems are also being upgraded with state-of-art technology to improve efficiency. Promising fuel supplies, the concentration of major market entities, and technological advancements are set to establish North America as the leading region in the artificial lift system market.

Notable Market Participants

Some of the most prominent market players in the global artificial lift system market include Baker Hughes Company (US), Halliburton (US), Weatherford (Switzerland), JJ Tech (US), NOV (US), Borets International (Russia), AccessESP (US), Apergy (US), Schlumberger (US), DistributionNow (US), Oilserv (UAE), and Novomet (Russia).

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Artificial Lift System Market Global Sales Are Expected To Reach US$ 18.7 Billion by 2030

The global artificial lift systems market size is predicted to reach around US$ 18.7 billion by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 7.47 percent from 2022 to 2030, according to a 2022 study by Precedence Research, the Canada-based market Insight Company. The artificial lift systems market is expected to grow in response to rising energy demand, industrialization, and population and urbanization. Rising…

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Artificial Lift Market Share- Global Industry Size, Growth Factors & Forecast To 2030

Market Research Future (MRFR), in its new the global artificial lift market 2020 report reveals the impact of SARS-CoV-2 and lockdown on the market. As per MRFR findings, the artificial lift global market can rise at 5.63% CAGR in the review period.

Artificial Lift is gaining high popularity due to the growing awareness of its benefits to increase flow of liquids such as, water or crude oil in oilfields. The issues with reservoirs that do not flow naturally is rising, thus boosting the need for artificial lift. These factors are expected to improve the expansion of the world market of artificial lift in the years to come.

Artificial lift method curbs maintenance cost and risk, rise in ROI by balancing flow rates, and boost life-of-well productivity. These can promote the market expansion as well.

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Key Players

MRFR registered major players in the artificial lift global market. They are; Schlumberger (US), Halliburton (US), National Oilwell Varco, Inc. (US), Weatherford (US), Borets International Limited (UAE), GE Oil & Gas (US), Flotek Industries, Inc. (US), AccessESP (US), John Crane Group (US), JJ Tech (US), Dover Corporation (US), and OILSERV (UAE) among others.

Segment Study

The segment study of the artificial lift market is based on type, application, and mechanism.

The type based, artificial lift market are PCP, gas lift, rod lift, ESP, and others. Hydraulic pumping and plunger lift other types of artificial lift. The rod lift segment can gain high revenue for the market across the review period as the rate of adoption of artificial lift is high. In addition, the application of artificial lift that suits a wide range of operating conditions is boosting the production rates of rod lifts, thus boost market growth.

The artificial lift market segments based on mechanism are gas assisted and pump assisted. The expansion of the artificial market can be attributed to the rise in the application of Pump assisted artificial lift. This segment is estimated to secure the largest share of the world market as they are used in PCP pumping systems, rod lift, and ESP.

The application based, the artificial lift market segments are onshore and offshore. The onshore segment of the market is expected to contribute largely to the expansion of the global artificial lift market.

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Regional Study

COVID-19 impact on the artificial lift market across major economies, Asia Pacific, North America, and Europe, along with South America and the Middle East & Africa is studied thoroughly by the MRFR. The artificial lift market in North America can secure the forefront position in the growth curve of the world market across the forecast period. It is due to increase in mature oilfields count across the region. The high shale gas production can also bolster the expansion of North America artificial lift market. The US holds numerous growth scope for the regional artificial market. The rise in demand for artificial lift due to high production of energy from unconventional sources can boost the expansion of the artificial lift market in North America. In Europe, the high utility of rod lift is likely to cause the expansion of the regional artificial lift market. The artificial lift market in the Middle East & Africa is likely to exhibit a steady growth in across the study period. The presence of huge number of reservoirs in the MEA can boost the steady expansion of the market across the review period. The existence of mature fields can boost the rise of the artificial lift market in the region.

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Self-portrait with mask, Claude Cahun, c. 1928

The charm of the mask inspires petty romantic souls, but wearing the mask plays into the hands of those who, for material or psychological reasons, have an interest in not behaving in an open-faced way.

Masks are made of different quality materials: cardboard, velvet, flesh, the Word. The carnal mask and the verbal mask are worn in all seasons. I soon learned to prefer to all others these off-the-market stratagems. You study yourself, you add a wrinkle, a fold at the corner of the mouth, a look, an intonation, a gesture, even a muscle. . . . You create for yourself several clearly defined vocabularies, several syntaxes, several ways of being, thinking, and even feeling—from which you'll choose a skin the color of time . . .

This game is so engaging that it'll soon rob you of the means to cause harm (or to live, as you please). A coin out of circulation. Devoid of social value. Disgusted with its ruts, the train car leaves its rails and falls over on its side. So, all it takes is for the flesh to make way for the spirit (that being the logical progress of evil). From now on, at the roll call you'll only be able to answer "absent," you'll be incapable of taking lessons, and you'll be able to make love only by correspondence. . . .

In front of the mirror, on a day full of enthusiasm, you put your mask on too heavily, it bites your skin. After the party, you lift up a corner to see . . . a failed decal. With horror you see that the flesh and its mask have become inseparable. Quickly, with a little saliva, you reglue the bandage on the wound.

"I remember, it was Carnival time. I had spent my solitary hours disguising my soul. Its masks were so perfect that when they happened to run into each other on the plaza of my consciousness, they didn't recognize one another. I adopted the most surly opinions, one after another: those that displeased me the most were the most certain of success. But the facepaints that I'd used seemed indelible. To clean them off, I rubbed so hard that I took off the skin. And my soul, like a face galled to the quick, no longer resembled human form."

Can they say "Well done!" when such suffering seems artificial? It isn't enough to be good for clumsy sparrows, you must be able to help mechanical birds take flight. More burdensome than pain, perhaps they'll traverse either time or space.

Claude Cahun, Captive Balloon Translated from the French by Myrna Bell Rochester

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2024 Book Review #19 – Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

This is the third book I’ve picked up as part of my whole aspirational ‘read a piece of non-SFF capital-l Literature every month’ New Years resolution. Of those three, it is the second I opened only to discover it actually is science fiction and/or fantasy after all. Which is just a very funny thing to happen twice, and also meant the book was significantly less outside my comfort zone than I’d expected. Which did make it quite a pleasant read.

The story follows Klara, an AF (Artificial Friend, a companion robot for children) in a broadly sketched and mildly dystopian future America. At first it just follows her life in the shop where she’s kept, observing the world around her and interacting with the store manager and the other AFs, but the meat of the book is her life with the family who buys her. Over time you learn that Josie, her child, suffers from severe and increasing health issues as a consequence of being ‘lifted’ (genetically enhanced, in some unclear way) in the womb. Klara, being solar-powered and having quietly developed a one-robot religion underpinned by a firm belief in the power and benevolence of Mr. Sun (and a moral opposition to Pollution, which obscures and drives him away) does her best to invoke his help in nourishing and restoring Josie. At the same time, she learns that her job is not just to comfort Josie but, should she die, to be her mother’s replacement goldfish and imitate her perfectly.

The setting is broadly sketched and never really exposited upon – it’s just not something Klara is particularly interested in – but it’s a very modern sort of dystopia. Much of the populace, even among the American professional elite, have been left ‘post-employed’ by robotic automation. The remaining meritocratic elite have embraced novel and risky genetic enhancements for their children, as the only possible way of ensuring they get into a good school and one of the few good careers left. There are fascist militia compounds off in the distance somewhere. The overall feeling is that of a society dimly aware it’s midway through collapsing, but with no ideas of how to arrest its fall. But since Klara has no interest at all in either politics or economics, we only see this as it directly intrudes upon the story, with nary a lecture or manifesto to be seen.

I’ve only ever read one other book by Ishiguro, so I really don’t know how much this generalizes, but the similarities to Never Let Me Go really were striking. Both books are set in really rather horrifying societies, but portrayed in an utterly normalized way by someone who never even thinks to question the real rules they live under. Which is even more striking because in both cases the protagonist is seen by society as only quasi-human – like a person, but existing only in relation to and for the benefit of the people who really matter. And in both cases the story follows the protagonist who lives their life moving through the role they were made for without ever really resisting it, let alone changing it. Not that the roles of ‘friend to sick child’ and ‘mandatory organ donor’ are exactly comparable but, you know.

A definition I’ve always kind of liked for what makes literary fiction, well, literary is that it’s as or more concerned with the beauty and presentation of its prose than it is on the information the prose is conveying. Not at all true in terms of how the term’s actually used (genre is marketing), but it works for me, and lets this book count as literature quite handily. The whole story is told quite tightly from Klara’s point of view, and it’s a pleasure to read. Even if it took me more than a few pages to really understand how she described scenes, always foregrounding the ways they were divided by grids or patterns of the sun’s light.

Portraying the normal human society through the eyes of a naive and somewhat alien narrator to get away without explaining everything is a classic sci fi trope for a reason, but it’s overall used really well here as well.

I’m still not entirely sure how to interpret the sudden intrusion of magical realism with the ending. But otherwise, really quite a good read.

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