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Linda Martin
Joe Allston, retired literary agent, lives with his long-time wife, Ruth, in a suburb of the San Francisco Bay Area. He receives an unexpected postcard from their old friend, Astrid, who lives in Denmark. This opens the door to his memories about the trip Joe and Ruth took to Denmark twenty years earlier, not long after their only child died. Joe's mother had immigrated from Denmark to the United States before Joe was born and this was his first time to travel back there to see what her country ...more
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Interesting Denmark connection, plus I like Stegner's style of writing dialogue. ...more
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