Kevin Barry’s novel, The Heart in Winter, features an Irish immigrant living in Butte, Montana, who falls in love with another man’s mail order bride. Barry recently spoke with KMUW's Beth Golay, and explained that this book started as an idea... 25 years ago. We have their conversation.
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Producer: Lu Anne Stephens
Editors: Suzanne Perez and Lu Anne Stephens
Contributors: Beth Golay, Kyle Palmer, Suzanne Perez, Bek Shackelford-Nwanganga, Ainsley Smyth, and Sam Zeff
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