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Her memoir is called Necessary Trouble, Growing Up at Mid-Century. Necessary Trouble is a quote from John Lewis, who she knew,

If you're just joining us, my guest is Drew Gilpin Faust, her new memoir, is called Necessary Trouble. We'll be right back after a short break.

Her new memoir is called Necessary Trouble, Growing Up at Mid-Century.

James McBride's new novel, The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, opens in 1972 in a neighborhood of Pottsville, Pennsylvania, called Chicken Hill, a place where immigrant Jews and black Americans have lived next to each other for decades.

She reviewed James McBride's new novel, The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store.

The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store is one of the best novels I've read this year.

His book, Let the Lord Sort Them, The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty, explores the rise and fall of capital punishment.

One of the things that you write about in your book, Let the Lord Sort Them, the Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty, is the history.

He's a staff writer ... author of Let the Lord Sort Them, The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty.

R. Eric Thomas' new book explores what it actually feels like in practice to go back to the place where you were born, especially when your relationship with that place is complicated. The book is called Congratulations! The Best Is Over, and it's a series of humorous essays recounting Thomas' journey back to his hometown of Baltimore.

Our guest today is R. Eric Thomas, author of a new collection of essays called Congratulations, The Best Is Over.

He's written a new series of essays called Congratulations, The Best Is Over, which recounts Thomas's journey back to his hometown of Baltimore.

Our Eric Thomas's new book of essays is called Congratulations, the Best is Over.

R. Eric Thomas is a television writer, playwright, and author of the bestselling book Here for It, or How to Save Your Soul in America, reclaiming her time, the power of Maxine Waters and the young adult novel Kings of Bemore.

Thomas is the author of the bestselling book Here for It, or How to Save Your Soul in America, reclaiming her time, the power of Maxine Waters and the Kings of Bemore.

Colson Whitehead... his first book, the first book I read of his was The Intuitionist, which was, I think I read that maybe right before I went to college.

Her new book is Dreamtown, Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity.

Laura Meckler is a national education writer for the Washington Post. Her new book is Dreamtown, Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity.

Her new book is Dreamtown, Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity.

The book is called Dreamtown, Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity.

And in fact, when I think of the title Dreamtown, what it says to me is less this is a place that's achieved the dream, but that this is a place that is dreaming.

In the new mystery novel Evergreen by Naomi Hirahara, a Japanese-American family that had been interned during World War II returns home to a Los Angeles that isn't what they remember.

You see them clearly in the absorbing new mystery Evergreen by Naomi Hirahara.

The book is a sequel to her acclaimed 2021 novel Clark and Division about a Japanese-American family who'd been locked up in the Manzanar concentration camp.

In Evergreen, the family returns home to a 1946 Los Angeles where they discover that their old world has been erased. Homes taken over, businesses seized by the state, the little Tokyo neighborhood transformed into an AfricanAmerican enclave known as Bronzeville.

The old man is shot dead in his hotel room and Babe proves, well, hard to find. And so, in her unobtrusive way, Aki starts playing detective.

The book is a sequel to her acclaimed 2021 novel Clark and Division about a Japanese-American family who'd been locked up in the Manzanar concentration camp.

I had the benefit of this extraordinary book, American Prometheus that was written, Martin Sherwin... he spent 25 years researching Oppenheimer's story ... and Kai Bird finished it, it won the Pulitzer Prize.

James McBride's new novel, The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, opens in 1972 in a neighborhood of Pottsville, Pennsylvania called Chicken Hill, a place where immigrant Jews and African Americans have lived next to each other for decades. Our book critic Maureen Corrigan says that the story that follows is an allAmerican mix of humor, horror, and social history.

The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store is one of the best novels I've read this year. It pulls off the singular magic trick of being simultaneously flattening and uplifting.