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Podcast: Abstract Essay
Episode: Abstract Essay, in its fifth season, features Shelley Blanton-Stroud, a longtime arts advocate and educator, as my guest.
Description: An Unlikely Prospect: A World War II NovelFor fans of Kate Quinn’s The Rose Code and Jacqueline Winspear’s The Consequences of Fear comes a gripping novel, set in post–WWII San Francisco, about a young female newspaper publisher and a story that could change the course of her city’s future.In the jubilant aftermath of Japan’s surrender in World War II, San Francisco erupts in celebration. But for Sandy Zimmer, the thirty-two-year-old widow publisher of the Prospect newspaper, the revelry masks a darker truth. In the chaos of the VJ Day Pe...