For this, our first foray into the romance novel genre, we went in craving a bodice ripper, but ended up with teenage dress mending -- only a little less hot. However, we must admit that the results of our reading of the great Beverly Jenkins' YA novel, Josephine, were more than satisfying! In this episode we discuss antebellum Michigan and the small town of Whittaker, where all the men have left to fight in the Civil War and the women have been left to fend for themselves. When a group of injured soldiers arrives to convalesce at the town's boarding house, I think we all know what comes next: intense courting! Respectable socializing! Thoughts of kissing! Heteronormativity! And choices, choices . . . As you might expect, this turns out to be a delightfully raucous episode with lots of puns, nervous laughter, and an overdose of food metaphors. Check it out!
Episode 28 -- Pass the Bone Salt, Please: Cherie Dimaline's EMPIRE OF WILD
Episode 27 -- Everybody Loves Radha: THE 40 YEAR-OLD VERSION
Episode 26 -- To Hell With THE HELP: An Unbridled Celebration of Barbara Neely's BLANCHE ON THE LAM
Episode 25 -- A Black, Black, Black Episode: John Lewis's MARCH, Volumes 1,2, & 3
Episode 24 -- "No more backward steps": Elizabeth Acevedo's THE POET X
Episode 23 -- Always Taking; Always Giving: Jewelle Gomez's THE GILDA STORIES
Episode 22 -- What We Take With Us: Nnedi Okorafor's BINTI
Episode 21 -- A Marvelous Reality: Wayetu Moore's SHE WOULD BE KING
Episode 20 -- The Spoilers Set It Off With QUEEN AND SLIM and ATLANTICS (Quarantine Edition)
Driplet #3 -- Claudia Rankin's THE WHITE CARD at Penumbra Theatre
Episode 19 -- "Who the heck is Jack!?!": Colson Whitehead's THE NICKEL BOYS
Episode 18 -- Treacherous Feet, Bubble Tea, and PERFECT STRANGERS: Gene Yang's AMERICAN BORN CHINESE
Episode 17 -- A Little Pink House for You and Me: Relationships and Borderlands in Oscar Casares' WHERE WE COME FROM
Episode 16 -- "You can shoot me now": White Saviors and the Art of Race in Claudia Rankine's THE WHITE CARD
Episode 15 -- Pulsing, Possible Dreams: Danez Smith's DON'T CALL US DEAD
Episode 14 -- "Damn these Eggs!": Lorraine Hansberry's A RAISIN IN THE SUN
Driplet #2 -- Tunnel Vision: Jordan Peele's US
Episode 13 - Movin' on Up: Michelle Obama's BECOMING
Episode 12 -- What About Tish?: Barry Jenkins' IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK
The Drip Episode 11 -- Be Loving This Book: Kiese Laymon's HEAVY
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