This week, Liberty and Amanda discuss An American Marriage, Shadowsong, Back Talk, and more great books.

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Books discussed on the show:

I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O’Farrell

Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I’ve Loved by Kate Bowler

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

Wintersong / Shadowsong by S. Jae-Jones

Heart Berries: A Memoir by Terese Marie Mailhot

The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantú

Back Talk: Stories by Danielle Lazarin

Tempests and Slaughter (The Numair Chronicles, Book One) by Tamora Pierce

What we’re reading this week:

Bingo Love by Tee Franklin and Jenn St-Onge

The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orisha) by Tomi Adeyemi

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