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Geraldine Brooks: March
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Author Geraldine Brooks has taken the mostly-absent father of the March family at the center the 19th century novel Little Women, and made him the central character of a new novel called March which has just been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Jeffrey Brown speaks to Geraldine Brooks from Cambridge, Mass.
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