Most Notable Books 2022: 'The Candy House,' 'Trust,' 'Our Missing Hearts,' 'Afterlives,' and 'Liberation Day'
All Of It with Alison Stewart | Dec 9, 2022
[REBROADCAST FROM May 6, 2022] We air highlights from our Get Lit with All Of It April book club event with Pulitzer Prize winning author Jennifer Egan, which took place in the Greene Space on May 2! Egan joined us to discuss her latest novel and our book club selection, The Candy House, and to take questions from the audience.
[REBROADCAST FROM June 3, 2022] We air highlights from our May Get Lit with All Of It virtual book club event with author Hernan Diaz. We spent the month reading his novel Trust, which tells the story of one fabulously man in early 20th century New York... and the story of his brilliant wife, who died young.
[REBROADCAST FROM October 5, 2022] Bestselling author Celeste Ng is back with her latest novel after the tremendous success of Little Fires Everywhere. In Our Missing Hearts, Ng creates a future America in which laws have been created to "preserve American culture" and children of dissidents can be sent away. One of those children is Bird, whose mother is a Chinese American poet deemed unpatriotic by the government. Bird has grown up disavowing his mother, but when he receives a mysterious note, he begins a journey to find her. Ng join us to discuss.
[REBROADCAST FROM September 12, 2022] Abdulrazak Gurnah is the latest Nobel Prize recipient in literature, receiving the award for his decades of writing about colonialism, refugees, and family. Gurnah joins us to discuss his career and his latest novel, Afterlives, a story of characters living under German colonial rule in East Africa.
[REBROADCAST FROM October 27, 2022] Acclaimed author and short story master George Saunders joins us to discuss his new collection, Liberation Day.
