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The Book Show #971

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wamc/local-wamc-566561.mp3

Albany, NY – Host Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina talks with author Matt Haig about his new novel "The Dead Fathers Club," a new twist on Shakespeare's "Hamlet". Haig talks about his life as a writer and how he developed the characters and themes in his latest novel. Haig creatively reanimates themes from Hamlet with an 11-year old British protagonist who is commissioned to avenge his father's murder.