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Sound Fiction: "The Hours Count" by Jillian Cantor

Using the true story of the Rosenberg espionage trial as a backdrop, Tucson author Jillian Cantor explores life for a young Jewish fanily in the 1950s.
by Mark McLemore

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Tucson-based author Jillian Cantor sometimes lets history guide her fiction. Her novel Margot imagined an alternate life story for Anne Frank's older sister, if she had survived the Holocaust.

Cantor's latest work is The Hours Count, in which she uses the true story of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg's arrest and execution for espionage as the backdrop to tell a story about her characters - the Rosenberg's neighbors, a young Jewish family in 1950s New York.

Jillian Cantor read from her novel The Hours Count, published in October of 2015 by Riverhead Books, a division of Penguin.

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