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michelle-hoover's picture
Sep.24.2010
Struck dumb in the middle of a recent Q&A session—this halfway through my two-week, every-night Midwestern book tour and feeling somewhat out-of-sorts with a bad stomach in a small Minnesota town—a bookstore owner raised his hand at the back of the room and asked the following question:  Why...
ryn-cricket's picture
Dec.23.2009
“Mama?”  Annie asked.  “Why are we going to have another baby?” “Because God wants us to.” I said with a bit of a sigh. “Doesn’t God know that we are starving?” She said?  Marjorie just gaped at her.  As did I. “We are NOT starving!”  I stated emphatically.  “What ever gave you the idea that you...