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Nancy Pearl Picks A First-Time Novelist With Quite The Journey To Tell

caption: A woman decies to walk from Canada's Great Plains to the Atlantic coast in "Etta and Otto and Russel and James."
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A woman decies to walk from Canada's Great Plains to the Atlantic coast in "Etta and Otto and Russel and James."
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Marcie Sillman speaks with beloved librarian Nancy Pearl about the book pick of the week by Canadian writer Emma Hooper, a first-time novelist. Called "Etta and Otto and Russell and James," it is about a middle-aged woman who decides to walk from her home on Canada's Great Plains all the way to the Atlantic coast.

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