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Once a talented young novelist emerges from obscurity into the white-hot glare of literary success, the pressure to publish a second, even more riveting read than the first is often overwhelming (think Zadie Smith or Jonathan Safran Foer). Thirty-one-year-old Anthony Doerr certainly had his work cut out for him: the Idaho-based writer's 2002 debut story collection, The Shell Collector, won several prestigious prizes, including an O. Henry, and was on top of First Lady Laura Bush's nightstand before it even hit paperback. With his luminous follow-up novel, About Grace (Scribner), Doerr once again captures the expansive power of the midwestern ...