Books are getting us through a tough year. Novelist Kaitlyn Greenidge talks about what she’s been reading. Tressie and Roxane respond in kind. Plus, their reaction to the Derek Chauvin verdict, and book recommendations from listeners.

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Libertie by Kaitlyn Greennidge 

• The Cutting Season by Attica Locke 
• The Age of Innocence by Eidith Wharton 
• Afterparties by Anthony So
• Let the record show: A Political History of ACT UP New York by Sarah Schulman
• Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning  by Cathy Park Hong
• The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans--and How We Can Fix It

       by Dorothy A. Brown

• World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
• Lucky Fish by  Aimee Nezhukumatathil
• Oceanic by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
• My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
• Control Negro- Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
• The Prophets by Roberts Jones Jr. 
• Of Women and Salt- Gabriela Garcia 
• Dyke (geology) by Sabrina Imbler

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