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Book pick: 'Wingshooters' by Nina Revoyr

by Kerri Miller, Minnesota Public Radio

10:55 AM, April 17, 2012

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Kerri's book Pick of the Week is "Wingshooters" by Nina Revoyr. The Los Angeles Times calls it "a searing, anguished novel about racial bigotry in a small, insulated Wisconsin town named Deerhorn, where people who were born there tend not to leave."

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