"I just had so many questions about adoption and motherhood. And you know, you've read my books, you know that I'm very interested in what makes a family and how does our family influence us. And that's all part of this book, too." From her sparkling debut, The Weird Sisters, to her latest, Any Other Family, Eleanor Brown writes big-hearted novels with hopeful endings about family and finding ourselves. She joins us on the show to talk about the story behind her latest novel, how questions and character drive her novels, capturing children's voices on the page, how she approaches the writing process, what she's been reading and much more with Poured Over's host, Miwa Messer. And we end this episode with TBR Topoff book recommendations from Marc and Becky.

Featured Titles (episode)

Any Other Family by Eleanor Brown

The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown

The Light in Paris by Eleanor Brown

All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung

The Lioness by Chris Bohjalian

The Foundling by Ann Leary

Cult Classic by Sloane Crosley

On Writing by Stephen King

Featured Titles (TBR Topoff)

Run by Ann Patchett

The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner

Poured Over is produced and hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang. Follow us here for new episodes Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays).

A full transcript of this episode is available here.