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Gail Godwin has written 18 books. Many of her novels were best sellers\\xa0including\\xa0Evensong. Three of them were finalists for the National Book Award. Her book\\xa0Grief Cottage features a boy who has a relationship with a ghost. Godwin says she herself has seen ghosts. When she was a reporter, an apparition dressed in a medical uniform used to visit her in the middle of the night. Godwin\\u2019s new book is a memoir. It opens with the story of how the writer, who\\u2019s 87, went into her back yard to water her dogwood tree, wound up falling on her face and breaking her neck. We talk about how curiosity saved her in her darkest moments. \\u201cNow What?\\u201d is produced with help from Steve Zimmer, Lucy Little and Jackie Schwartz. Audio production is by Nick Ciavatta.