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Recommended by Janet Daniels, Assistant Director of the Student Center at the Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
I picked it up because it’s set in New York City 1940s and because I loved her most recent other historical fiction book, “The Signature of All Things: A Novel,” which was set in the 18th and 19th century Philadelphia.