When she was in third grade, Alafair Burke’s parents moved the family from South Florida to Wichita, Kansas. The move was fortuitous, but young Alafair was more than a little skeptical. “They took me from Florida kicking and screaming,” recalls the author, the daughter of a school librarian and crime writer James Lee Burke, who was teaching at Miami Dade College at the time. “Parenting was different back then. Kids didn’t have a say. [...]
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