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Well, welcome to you, bookcases.

We can see you out there.

You know, you think this is a one-way medium.

You think that you can hear us and we can't see you, but we can.

Oh, my gosh.

Actually, we can't, but it's a nice when somebody can make a podcast intro just a little bit scary and just a little bit stalker.

Like, I'm Kate, I can't

see you, I don't know where you live, you are safe at home, but welcome and happy Thursday to you.

We do welcome you back. We have a very interesting program today.

Number one, we're going to introduce a new feature to the bookcase, which is book facts.

I'm very interested in the business of books and the

history of American reading. We're going to give you the first book fact today, which is who

published the first novel in the United States? And we'll give you the answer at the end of the

program. What was the novel? And what year was it done? Anyway, we'll get to that. That's our

book fact for today.

But our book for today is, this is a love story by a relatively new author, her second novel,

Jessica Sofer. And it is a very, very touching and nuanced story of a marriage that has lasted 50 years. Well, and I think as a or we thought might be a bit of a stretch for us,

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