Peace Like a River: Chapters 8-11

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🗓️ 8 January 2020

⏱️ 83 minutes

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We're back with more conversation about Leif Enger's Peace Like a River! In this episode, David, Heidi, and Tim discuss the Fairy Tale elements of the story, the question of realism, what the story is ultimately about, Swede's preciousness, and much more.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to Close Freeds here on the Close Freeds Podcast Network. I'm David Kern,
0:06.9	and I'm joined by Heidi White and Tim McIntosh. Heidi, Tim. How's going? Welcome back to the show.
0:12.3	Thank you, David.
0:13.1	David, good to be here. Happy New Year. Happy 2020. Yeah, happy new year. Well, we are here to
0:19.2	continue discussing Leaf Anger's book, Peace Like a River.
0:22.5	We are going to be discussing pages 94 through 148.
0:26.9	I think that's what chapters 8 through 11 or something like that.
0:31.1	There's no chapter numbers in the book, so I'm just going based on memory there.
0:36.6	I'm making a guess. But it's pages 94 through 148.
0:39.8	That much I know is true.
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1:37.3	kicking off our Patreon discussion on crime and punishment. So the first episode on that,
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