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What Do You Know About the Spanish Flu?

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Thank you to Suzy Approved Book Reviews for a copy of AS BRIGHT AS HEAVEN by Susan Meissner.   I won this copy from Suzy’s site.  I had the opportunity to meet Susan Meissner last March.  She was at a book signing for her previous novel A Bridge Across theOcean .  Whenever you go to a signing one of the common questions to an author is what your next project is?  Susan began to describe for her audience AS BRIGHT AS HEAVEN .  Synopsis: Maggie and her family have lived in the Pennsylvania countryside all of her life.  One day she watches her parents discussing the opportunity to move to Philadelphia for a new opportunity.  The family had been mourning the loss of their baby brother who died.  Her mother is the deciding vote and they decide on  a fresh start in Philadelphia and her father would learn the trade of undertaking.  Once they are settled their family strikes up a friendship with the neighbors.  Then World War I occurs and life changes. When the war ends and Philad