If Not For This, by Pete Fromm
by Heidi Willis
“True love with a cost may be Pete Fromm’s calling card,” writes Heidi Willis in the review of this new novel, “his stories peppered with characters who inhabit broken places.”
“True love with a cost may be Pete Fromm’s calling card,” writes Heidi Willis in the review of this new novel, “his stories peppered with characters who inhabit broken places.”
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