On this edition of The Weekly Reader, our book critic Marion Winik reviews a pair of novels that explore aspects of the American past that you may have missed: Lisa Gornick's The Peacock Feast and Roxana Robinson's Dawson's Fall.
The Peacock Feast, Lisa Gornick,
Dawson's Fall, Roxana Robinson
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