Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

Jeff and Rebecca get into Maggie O'Farrell's best-selling, critically-acclaimed, and now feature film, Hamnet (amazon.com/gp/product/1984898876/ref=as_li_tf_…). How does a book loosely based on the life of William Shakespeare not even use the name once? It's a deft, moving, and complicated novel--and makes for terrific discussion.

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