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What won what whereAuthor Susan Choi is the guest today on Bookworm with Michael Silverblatt (KCRW, 2:30 p.m.). Her novel is American Woman, told from the point of view of the Asian American who helped hide heiress Patty Hearst and her Symbionese Liberation Army kidnappers in the 1970s.
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