Linda Grant on Her Novel <em>We Had It So Good</em>

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 5, 2011

Novelist and journalist Linda Grant talks about her latest book, We Had It So Good, a novel spanning multiple generations. It opens in a fur storage house in Los Angeles with its American protagonist as a boy trying on Marilyn Monroe’s coat. The story follows him as he moves to England, marries, and raises a family.

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