Ann Patchett at Clemson University

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The Love Between the Two Women is Not Normal

August 2007

By Ann Patchett

I went back to my computer and watched the news clip again. The reporter, Kisha Foster, shook my paperback at the camera as if it were a bloodied knife. “This is the book,” Kisha Foster said. “And for at least one parent, there’s nothing beautiful about it.”

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