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What Is Left the Daughter

by Howard A. Norman

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'What Is Left The Daughter' A Work Of Endurance

Howard Norman's new novel, What Is Left The Daughter, opens with the kind of tragedy that reminds you that there is really no such thing as a small town. Host Scott Simon talks with Norman about his most recent novel, which is set in Nova Scotia during World War II.

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What Is Left the Daughter

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Copyright © 2011 Howard Norman
All right reserved.
ISBN: 9780547521824

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