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Jane Smiley: I couldn t finish Philip Roth s American Pastoral. I tossed it
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Safe from the Sea by Peter Geye is set near Duluth, Minnesota, but the scenery Geye gives the reader is the wilderness of Lake Superior and its history of shipping ore from the local mines to factories during the 20th century. A father and son are trying to reconcile before the father dies. It is wonderfully evocative of the characters and the bumpy history of their relationship.
The book that changed my lifeA lot of books made me want to be a writer, but ....

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