Michelle Huneven, who was born and raised in Altadena and recently lost her homes there, finds herself circling back to the same familiar patch of land in her fiction. The middle-class Altadena family at the heart of her new novel, ‘Bug Hollow,’ is also confronted with crises at every turn.
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