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JUDY WOODRUFF (Newshour): Finally tonight, this week marked the 24th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests.
Gwen Ifill has our book conversation about a young Chinese woman named in honor of that revolt and her fictional counterpart.
GWEN IFILL (Newshour): Fiction collides with fact in "Nine Days," a new novel that takes young adult leaders to China and back. In it, two American high schoolers, a girl and a boy, set out to find a missing political dissident. The fictional girl and the real-life woman who inspired this story share the same name, Ti-Anna.
Washington Post editor Fred Hiatt is the author of the book inspired by the search for Ti-Anna's father, who has been held by Chinese authorities since 2002.
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