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PEARL OF WISDOM Mary Gordon reads from her novel, “Pearl” (Pantheon), about a New York single mother whose daughter chains herself to a flagpole outside the American Embassy in Dublin while studying linguistics in Ireland. Tomorrow, 6 p.m., Labyrinth Books, 536 W. 112th St., between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue, 212-865-1588, free.