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    'Dear Edward' Novel Explores Triumph Of Human Spirit After Tragedy

    How strong is the human spirit? It's one of the questions that author Ann Napolitano explores in her gripping new novel "Dear Edward."
    Jan 14, 2020 3 minutes
    "Dear Edward" by Ann Napolitano. (Allison Hagan/Here & Now)

    How strong is the human spirit?

    It’s one of the questions that author Ann Napolitano explores in her gripping — some might say gut-wrenching — new novel “Dear Edward.”

    Her protagonist, Edward, is based on a young Dutch boy who was the sole survivor of a 2010 plane crash. Napolitano () tells host Robin Young that after hearing about that child, she needed to where human kindness would allow him, somehow, to

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