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Ahab's Wife

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By Martha Barkley, North Charleston, S.C.

Nov. 12, 2009, 5:11 a.m. ET

I'm giving myself a holiday treat by slowly re-reading and taking notes on Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund. So many references to poetry and literature and history. I read it quickly for book group several years ago.