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"All my life, books have felt alive; some more so than people, or rather, some people. Alive - this has to do with me, I know, and not the books - in a way that some people aren't. Alive as teachers, alive as minds, alive as imaginative triggers."

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About Andrea Barrett

Andrea Barrett is an American novelist and short story writer known for historically grounded fiction with strong scientific themes. She won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1996 for Ship Fever.

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