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   .     Monday, April 12, 7:30 p.m. The Lake Shore Limited: A Novel  BUY NOW Four unforgettable characters beckon you into this spellbinding new novel from the author of last year’s New York Times best seller The Senator’s Wife. First among them is Wilhelmina—Billy—Gertz, small as a child, fiercely independent, powerfully committed to her work as a playwright. The novel centers around her play, The Lake Shore Limited, about the terrorist bombing of that train—and about a man waiting to hear the fate of his estranged wife who is traveling on it. There’s not a wasted word in this tour de force about the dislocations wrought in our lives by accidents of fate and time, and about how we try to make peace with whom we become in the face of circumstances beyond our control. Sue Miller is the author of the novels The Senator’s Wife, Lost in the Forest, The World Below, While I Was Gone, The Distinguished Guest, For Love, Family Pictures, and The Good Mother; the story collection Inventing the Abbotts; and the memoir The Story of My Father.   'The Lake Shore Limited,' by Sue Miller Joan Frank, Special to The Chronicle Sunday, April 11, 2010 Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/04/10/RVJ31CDOP5.DTL#ixzz0kuSLCd4P