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May 2006, 278 pages
Paperback:
Jun 2007, 278 pages
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This article relates to Dairy Queen
Though she never played high school
football or milked cows, Catherine
Gilbert Murdock is a big fan of family
farms and Wisconsin. She herself grew up
on a tiny farm (two goats and honeybees)
in Connecticut, and attended Bryn Mawr
College and the University of
Pennsylvania. She now lives in suburban
Philadelphia with her husband, two
children, and Sparky the cat. Dairy
Queen is her first novel.
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Catherine's sister is
Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat,
Pray, Love.
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