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Having enjoyed all the novels by geraldine brooks i have read, and adored some of. Pulitzer prize winning novelist geraldine brooks brings the reader into the mind of natan, one of judaisms earliest prophets, as he tries to. Brooks has humanized the king and cleverly added a modern perspective to our understanding of him. But as a sustained chronicle, the secret chord is wanting. Brooks chat about writing and her most recent novel the secret chord. She has also written the acclaimed nonfiction works nine parts of desire and foreign correspondence.
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