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Margaret Hermes’ new novel was inspired by backpacking Europe — and 4 decades of gestation

St. Louis on the Air

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What Is the Best Book You've Read in 25 Years?

The book would have been 30 pages longer if my editor hadn't a put his, put his red and to he had to hold that back o bit. He really did. The novel was definitely suffering from my overwhelmingly methodical research. I even was including bits and pieces from bobby sands diaries, songs, poems. But i kept thinking how like she knows so much about what life would have been like a for an irish man livingin 19 81.

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