Here’s a link to a fab article about the book in The News Journal, Delaware’s largest daily paper. I’m flattered, to say the least. Writer Kim Hoey really gets it. Of course, she’s a downstate girl!
For most of the 20th century, the du Pont family owned two Delaware newspapers, The Morning News and The Evening Journal. Ownership of both papers was consolidated in 1919 when feuding factions of the family reconciled, forming the News Journal Company.
The du Ponts decided to sell The News Journal Company in 1978. Gannett won the bidding war, beating the Hearst Corporation and The Washington Post Company. Gannett paid $60 million for the two Delaware papers and merged them in 1989 to form one paper, The News Journal.
THE DISCREET CHARMS OF A BOURGEOIS BEACH TOWN 
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