Read An Excerpt From In The Weeds
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- November 27, 2017
In the Weeds by Mark Ozeroff is a humorous 1970s tale of gas, grass, ass, and Vietnam. Here is an exclusive excerpt from the novel: My parents were Russian émigrés displaced during World War II when Hitler attacked Stalin despite their treaty swearing that no such thing would ever occur. They’d fled east, barely escaping
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