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Northshore October 2025
Author Brunonia Barry has lived all over the country, but when it came to writing her New York Times best-selling novel, The Lace Reader (recently released in paperback), only Salem would do for influence and inspiration. The same is true for her next novel, The Map of True Places."The title comes from a Melville quote, and it has a lot of Hawthorne and Melville in it," says Barry of her second novel which is due out in July. "I got to write some of my draft at the House of Seven Gables, which is like having a research team right there for me. Salem is a world of treasure and danger and surrealism. It's where I feel comfortable."Barry grew up
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