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In her first two books, Young American (Paradigm, 2019) and New York New York (Hatje Cantz, 2021), Marie Tomanova presents a deep and expansive landscape of youth. With selections drawn from these closely related bodies of work, Fragile begins to draw together just one theme, or tendril, that has already been critically conceptualized in terms of connection, place, identity, immigration/emigration, gender, belonging, togetherness, and empathy. Fragility—the notion of our own delicacy as people, or the delicacy of a moment, a feeling, a connection, or a relationship—is an aspect that has not …