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In a Perfect World

Laura Kasischke reads October 8

by Keith Taylor

posted 10/5/2009

In Laura Kasischke's new novel, In a Perfect World, an airline pilot, a widower, marries a stewardess, Jiselle, primarily so she can take care of his three troubled children while he flies off to various exotic cities. There is tension from the start. But this family drama may not be what is most memorable about the book, which is set in a decidedly

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