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Mothers, Memory, and the Search for Self
Host Jo Reed talks with contributor Leslie Fine about three audiobooks that circle around questions of identity, family, and belonging. In Kin by Tayari Jones, dual narrators Angel Pean and Ashley J. Hobbs give distinct
voices to two lifelong friends shaped by maternal absence as well as the racial and class realities of the 1950s South. Boy From the North Country,
written and read by Sam Sussman, blends autofiction and grief as a son returns home to his dying mother, while My Other Heart by Emma Nanami Strenner, narrated by Joy Ozymanski, follows two teenagers navigating questions of heritage, class, and family. Three very different audiobooks, each asking—through story and performance—how we come to understand
where we belong.
Audiobooks Discussed:
Kin by Tayari Jones, read by Angel Pean and Ashley J. Hobbs (Random House Audio)
Boy From the North Country written and read by Sam Sussman (Penguin Audio)
My Other Heart by Emma Nanami Strenner, read by Joy Osmanski (Penguin
Audio)
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Host Jo Reed talks with contributor Leslie Fine about three audiobooks that circle around questions of identity, family, and belonging. In Kin by Tayari Jones, dual narrators Angel Pean and Ashley J. Hobbs give distinct
voices to two lifelong friends shaped by maternal absence as well as the racial and class realities of the 1950s South. Boy From the North Country,
written and read by Sam Sussman, blends autofiction and grief as a son returns home to his dying mother, while My Other Heart by Emma Nanami Strenner, narrated by Joy Ozymanski, follows two teenagers navigating questions of heritage, class, and family. Three very different audiobooks, each asking—through story and performance—how we come to understand
where we belong.
Audiobooks Discussed:
Kin by Tayari Jones, read by Angel Pean and Ashley J. Hobbs (Random House Audio)
Boy From the North Country written and read by Sam Sussman (Penguin Audio)
My Other Heart by Emma Nanami Strenner, read by Joy Osmanski (Penguin
Audio)
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