St. Paul author Peter Brown reads from The Fugitive Wife (W.W. Norton), a sweeping narrative set in gold-prospecting Alaska in 1900. It tells of Essie, a Midwestern farm
woman, who flees a stormy marriage and joins up with prospectors bound for Nome, a town teeming with dreamers and schemers. Magers and Quinn Booksellers, 3038 Hennepin
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