The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon is a book that I will never forget. I was entranced the entire time I read this book. At times, I actually felt like I was alongside the protagonist, Martha Ballard, in her small town of Hallowell, Maine at the turn of the nineteenth century in the midst of a brutal winter. And I felt that I grew to understand her charac…
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