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https://booksbywomen.org/wp-content/uploads/eJenniferSteil041619_141BeowulfSheehan-1.jpg576864It feels appropriate to suddenly find myself and my 10-year-old daughter exiled from our home in Uzbekistan while launching a novel about exile—although our situation is far more fortunate than that of my characters. They flee the Nazis in Vienna to find refuge in Bolivia, the only country that will let them in, and have […]