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Best-selling Novelist Kevin Powers' CHILDREN OF THE WILD
Host Diana Korte speaks with writer and Iraq War veteran Kevin Powers. Author of 5 books, his first title, “The Yellow Birds,” is considered a landmark work of American fiction and was a finalist for the National Book Award.His newest title, CHILDREN OF THE WILD, is a love story of three people written against the background of rural Virginia, WW1 battle scenes and the 1918 pandemic.As the book begins, it's 1917 In Ewer’s Rock, Virginia. Roy Young is restless, eager to leave this isolated rural valley for university and return with the technical knowledge to modernize his family’s farm and…
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