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Ellen Baker

The shadow of the past

by Keith Taylor

posted 8/17/2011

Ellen Baker's first novel, Keeping the House, has had the kind of success that's not supposed to be possible anymore. Since it was published in 2007--to good, if occasionally mixed, reviews--its reputation has continued to grow as the book has been passed from hand to hand, from book club to book club. Clearly Baker touched a chord with this tale that

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