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http://booksbywomen.org/wp-content/uploads/unnamed-9-2.jpg7491124When you’ve known a secret family story for four decades and you decide to transform the narrative into a historical novel, the big question is how much should you rely on memory and how much on documented research? In my case, the story my father told me was about our family’s original home in Nesvicz, […]