Ballard kept a diary of her life and the town secrets she learned thanks to her profession — and she's at the center of Ariel Lawhon's new novel, The Frozen River. In today's episode ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Ariel Lawhon about her novel, "The Frozen River." A new novel opens with a body floating in a New England river in the winter of 1789. ARIEL LAWHON: (Reading ...