"The Stars Are Fire" by Anita Shreve. Knopf. April 2017. 241 pages. $29.95The first paragraph of Anita Shreve's new novel, "The Stars Are Fire," is a real beauty. She opens her gripping story on a spring day in 1947. The Maine coastal town of Hunts Beach is so sopping wet that it's impossible to hang laundry on the line to dry. Suddenly there's a break in the weather and the women get busy. The last sentence of the introductory paragraph reads: "With white sheets, undershirts, and rags [...]
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