The new novel by Alice Hoffman will break your heart from its very first pages, but it’ll spend the rest of its chapters helping you put it back together.
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Few book festivals could boast to have hosted such cultural and literary greats as Gene Wilder, Judy Blume, Pat Conroy, Mitch Albom, Arlene and Alan Alda, Dr. Ruth and Ambassador Dennis Ross, Bob Saget, Oliver Horovitz, Archie Rand and The New Yorker’s famed cartoonist Bob Mankoff -- but star power has long been the Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta’s Book Festival’s strength....