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The Book Show #1503 - Anita Shreve

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Joe Donahue
Published May 9, 2017 at 3:00 PM EDT
Book Cover - The Stars Are Fire

Anita Shreve is the New York Times best-selling author of The Weight of Water and The Pilot's Wife. Her latest,

The Stars are Fire, brings 1947 – the year Maine burned – to life, in a story about an extraordinary young woman tested by a catastrophic event and its aftermath.
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