But Maren Hontvedt, the woman who survived the 1873 attack, had other ideas. Shreve, who lives in western Massachusetts with her husband and their five children from previous marriages, didn't start out to be a novelist. Her father insisted she learn a practical skill, so she earned a teaching certificate and taught for five years. But Shreve found her true home in fiction. I always found it hard as a journalist, hard to ask people the questions they would rather not answer.
Fiction feels better.
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