Perfectly Frank and Crystal, Ep. 229
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Before they jump into their books for this week, Frank and Crystal chat about Thanksgiving and Christmas and how they spend their time as the holidays approach. Are you doing 31 holiday movies in 31 days like Crystal hopes to? Do you have any Christmas classics you like to re-read each year?
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by Jennifer Natalya Fink
A disability studies scholar examines the racist, misogynistic, and antisemitic historical pattern of eradicating disabled people from family narratives and argues for a radical reimagining of how we care for them.
What We Fed to the Manticore
by Talia Lakshmi Kolluri
Through nine emotionally vivid stories, all narrated from animal perspectives, Kolluri’s debut collection explores themes of environmentalism, conservation, identity, belonging, loss, and family with resounding heart and deep tenderness.
Fraud
by Anita Brookner
After devoting the best years of her life to the care of her ailing mother, Anna Durrant, a compliant, dependable, and now aged woman disappears, in a work that explores the inner turmoil of women short-changed by life.
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