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Xenobe Purvis discusses her debut novel 'The Hounding,' about female persecution

Be they girls, or be they dogs? NPR's Scott Simon talks with Xenobe Purvis about her debut novel, "The Hounding," where rumors about five girls turn deadly in 18th-century England.

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