7:11 AM ET Lynn Neary Audio for this story from Weekend Edition Saturday will be available at approximately 12:00 p.m. ET. Hausfrau by Jill Alexander Essbaum Hardcover, 320 pages | purchase Purchase Featured Book TitleHausfrauAuthorJill Alexander Essbaum Your purchase helps support NPR Programming. How? Amazon Independent Booksellers Fiction More on this book: NPR reviews, interviews and more Read an excerpt In her first novel, Hausfrau, poet Jill Alexander Essbaum has created a heroine who is not without precedent. Her name is Anna and she is, as we learn in the first sentence, "a good wife, mostly." That phrase, written with a poet's precision, contains a...
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