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fallen into in my life.
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end up. That's a lesson
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I need to remember
doctor looking for love
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Naomi Bloom.
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Sipher considers his
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book is a fictional version of what
adult situations in this book:'
my life would have been if I stayed
The Scenic Route was partially
in Michigan and finished medical
inspired during Sipher's return to
school:'
Michigan as a speaker at the Jewish
Book Fair in 2012.
Sipher, who describes his second
fictional work as "a little less sugar
"It meant so much to me to be part
and a little more spice," explains how
of this iconic event that I attended
the novel ultimately shows that life
as a child," says the author, who con-
is what happens on the way to where
tinues with his newspaper work and
people believe they are going.
additional writing projects.
"I think it's so easy for people to
"It got me thinking about my his-
tory in Michigan, and I found myself
focus on the destination rather than
the journey," says Sipher, who grew
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as fictional characters, One Night in
Winter (Harper), by British historian
Simon Sebag Montefiore, is a his-
torical novel that draws readers into
the everyday lives of those who must
accept Stalin's Soviet justice without
question — or face exile or worse.
In Lovers at the Chameleon Club,
Paris 1932 (HarperCollins), Francine
Prose builds a story around a well-
known Brassai portrait, Lesbian
Couple at Le Monocle, 1932; in the
novel, each person has his or her own
version of the truth about the bright
and glorious days of Paris in the '20s,
the theatrical spectacle of Berlin
in the '30s and the darker era that
begins when these two worlds collide.
The central question of the novel:
What makes a patriotic Frenchwoman
turn spy and interrogator for the
Gestapo?
In her first work of fiction,
Delicious: A Novel (Random House),

Ruth Reichl, a U-M grad and former
editor in chief of the now-folded
Gourmet magazine, tells the story
of Billie Breslin, a young non-cook
who takes a job as the assistant to the
editor at the iconic food magazine
Delicious!; when it abruptly ceases
publication, Billie is the only employ-
ee kept on, maintaining the hotline
for reader complaints about recipes
that don't work. When she discovers
a cache of letters from a young girl to
Delicious! writer James Beard during
World War II and tries to track her
down, Billie gathers the courage to
face the past she's running from.
The epistolary novel The Divorce
Papers (Crown) is a comic look at the
dissolution of a marriage between a
Mayflower descendant wife and her
doctor husband. To tell the story,
author Susan Rieger (she is the wife

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