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This summer’s buzziest book club read: The Mueller report

Barb Nelson, a farmer in Red Oak, Iowa, comes from a family of eight kids, split evenly between political parties. A confirmed Democrat, she has one particularly Republican sister, and while they’re close, they don’t talk politics. That is, they didn’t until Ms. Nelson started her book club.

She and a group of friends recently launched a reading group for former special counsel Robert Mueller’s legalese-laden 448-page report. As she was reading the report, Ms. Nelson decided to reach out to her sister and share some of her thoughts. She says

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