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Fresh Air | By Maureen Corrigan

Published June 18, 2007 at 12:00 AM EDT

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Sometimes it pays to let yourself be manipulated. My first instinct upon seeing Hilma Wolitzer's new novel was to pooh-pooh it as a bald appeal to book clubs across the land.