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Where would we be without books?

Where would we be without Gutenberg?

It's a rhetorical question, sir, but where would we be without books?

From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and this is Bookworm.

Today, my guest is Marks Luca.

His third novel is called Brewster.

It's published by Norton, and when I read it, I liked it so

much that I chose it for our Angel Club book, and this is a very good time for people to join

the Angel Book Club, because you'll get a book like Markuka's. This is called Brewster. It's set in the

60s in upstate New York. And you remember how when you were young and you read a book,

maybe it was like Lassie Come Home or Black Beauty or Ladda Dog and you just started to feel something was going to happen in this

book that would break your heart, and you read it with even greater excitement. Brewster is like

that. It's about kids who are so definitely going to be wounded by their experience of this cold upstate New

York Town, by the widening generation gap between kids and their parents.

These are parents who probably would have been very difficult, even if there weren't a generation gap widening.

Tell me, where do these people come from? They seem very well known by you.

First of all, thanks for having me. This is terrific. They come from my past. They come from my experience.

They come from my family. You come from my experience. They come from my family.

Brewster is a novel about the sort of the unlikely friendship between these two boys.

John Mosher is the son of German Jewish refugees.

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