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Welcome to the WBEZ Book Club.
I'm Jordan Rich. I always like to

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talk about the work of a local
author, a fine novelist named Paul Stephens

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Stone. The latest book is The
Snow That Never Fell, a fictional memoir

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of a man named Paul Peterson with
challenges faced by many men these days.

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He's a divorcee in a bitter relationship
with his ex and father to a ten

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year old. All of the action
centers around Paul and his son, Mickey,

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getting together in a cub scout father
and son Pinewood derby competition. Paul

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meditates often on the difficult relationship he
had with his own father, and The

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Snow That Never Fell is about our
protagonist trying desperately to be a better father,

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to be a better man. There's
humor and poignancy as this beaten down

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dad comes to terms with what really
matters in a relationship with a child,

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protecting him, being there for him, something Paul never got from his own

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dad. The Snow That Never Fell
by Paul stephen Stone. And that's another

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book club selection here on WEZ,
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