This week, Liberty and Patricia discuss Old Soul, Syme's Letter Writer, From These Roots, and more great books!

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Books Discussed On the Show:

Old Soul by Susan Barker

Syme's Letter Writer: A Guide to Modern Correspondence About (Almost) Every Imaginable Subject of Daily Life, with Odes to Desktop Ephemera and Selected Letters of Famous Writers by Rachel Syme

Tartufo by Kira Jane Buxton 

From These Roots: My Fight with Harvard to Reclaim My Legacy by Tamara Lanier

We Could Be Rats by Emily Austin 

Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People by Imani Perry

Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker

Blob: A Love Story by Maggie Su

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