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On June 6, the cover of Elizabeth Gilbert’s next novel, The Snow Forest, was revealed on Good Morning America, which is about as big a splash as it’s possible to make in the publishing world.

Around the same time, her publisher, Riverhead, an imprint of Penguin Random House, released a description of Gilbert’s story. The Snow Forest is a historical nove…