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In “All Adults Here,” Emma Straub’s bigly entertaining fourth novel, the protagonist, Astrid Strick, describes her haircutter as “human sunshine: bright, warm, sometimes harsh, but always good for one’s mood.”

From New York Times • May 5, 2020

“And how do you write?” the haircutter asked, tapping his black comb against polished scissors to get the loose hairs out.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 2, 2016

As a child, he asked his mother why one of these people, a young woman from a “proper southern family”, went to a men’s haircutter.

From The Guardian • Jun. 11, 2016

The haircutter reached for the blow-dryer and brush, and I looked at myself in the mirror.

From Slate • Apr. 9, 2013

To help the migrants look more presentable, he brings a haircutter to the church.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario