Author Alina Grabowski's novel "Women and Children First" is out now. (Author photo courtesy Matthew Fox; book cover courtesy Zando/SJP Lit)

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Included on a number of "best of" lists before it was published, the novel is a profoundly moving story about 10 women and teenage girls whose lives are forever changed by the sudden death of a high school senior named Lucy. Book critic Carol Iaciofano Aucoin reviews.

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