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Procession is a category for books organized around collective movement—ritual, ceremonial, or migratory—and the meanings that emerge from traveling together in an ordered sequence. Spanning fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, these works follow bodies in motion along a route: funeral corteges, pilgrimages, parades, diasporic marches, royal pageants, and protest lines. Narratives often unfold in steps or “stations,” their cadence and repetition exploring transition, belonging, grief, power, spectacle, and the choreography of public life. Protagonists may be individuals swept into a crowd or the crowd itself as a living character, with settings ranging from sacred paths to city streets. Forward-moving yet reflective, Procession titles use each stop along the way to illuminate social orders, beliefs, and private reckonings, asking how moving together—across space, time, or life’s thresholds—shapes identity and meaning.
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