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Lauren Groff Interview
Six questions for this award-winning author.
The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff. Riverhead Books. pp. 272. $28.
Three-time National Book Award finalist and bestselling author Lauren Groff returns with a novel set in Jamestown during a period known as “The Starving Time” (1609-10). It follows a young girl in flight from the […]
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